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Recently, one of our local hospitals opened up 4 full time jobs to QA the work they are getting from their vendor. It seems the doctors were complaining about the quality of their reports. My hope is that other hospitals as well will see that you get what you pay for and that the lower rates they are demanding followed by the lower rates paid to qualified MTs working for companies like MQ results in the loss of the most qualified MTs and inferior work being produced by less qualified off-shore personnel, newbies and probably even high-school drop-outs who are willing to work for minimum wage. I hope they realize that they will save some money with the use of technology but the work that still needs to be transcribed and edited requires education, skill and experience and those who have those qualifications will not work for the rates that MQ and other companies are paying. Perhaps this is overly optimistic but if it happened at one hospital, it can happen at others.