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mmodal taking my hospital's accounts - mtunemployed

Posted: Feb 07, 2014

mmodal is taking my hospital's transcription. 5 of us losing job. mmodal offered to let us test twice to be considered for a position. not so sure about it.

Your hospital is going with them - MModal cannot take anything

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MModal doesn't "take" hospital accounts--the hospital chooses to go with MModal to have MModal do their transcription.

Hospitals have been going with MModal (formerly MedQuist) since the late 1990s. You've been riding a high game and been extremely lucky that your hospital kept you for so long.

Working for these big MTSOs is a horrible thing. You will be expected to be on call if you want to get their production requirement in (because they off-shore to India), the pay will be so low you'll be crying, the dictators so hard you will be tearing your hair out, and the expectations for fixing ASR quality messes are out of this world. You are not allowed to just delete the ASR report and type from scratch, or you will be penalized.

You will have hundreds of dictators, all the specialties, ESLs and the worst of the worst dictators.

If you are wanting to do this, go in knowing all of this, and meanwhile (as we've been saying for about 7 years now), start a plan to get the heck out of the business.

If you are wanting to go with a small agency, know that MM and Nuance are buying them up like crazy.

That is that.

hospital chose mmodal - mtunemployed

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Yes my hospital chose to go with mmodal
Bad choice of words.

RUN, RUN RUN - FAST - DO NOT WORK FALL FOR THEIR LIES

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I am sorry to hear about your job, but Mmodal (or Mmoral as we call them) is NOT an acceptable answer to your dilemma. They have no work and are extremly focused on sending all work to India. They will make you work a schedule, fail to provide you work and then insist you make it up before midnight that night or all weekend, which you will not be able to do. They have cut our pay so far down it is insulting, and on top of that, management is a horrid nightmare. Nothing but punitive policies, nasty management and a blatant distaste for anything moral and decent as far as employee treatment. This company has boasted that they are changing the face of this industry and they have - they ruined it! Run to anywhere but here, please do yourself a favor and tell them where to stick their "offer to test". Best of luck to you from one who knows this company painfully well after 20 years. I even escaped once only to have them buy up the great company I was working for and they fed us all the lies too, nothing will change......not true.

I had escaped, too - But got slammed back

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That happened to me, too. I was so happy to finally have found an almost-okay company to work for, and 2 years later, whammo---got slammed back to MM. No notice. I had 1 day to make a decision to go with them or not, and at the time, I needed the health insurance, so I was forced to stick around and quit 8 months later.

During that 8 months, I aggressively worked on getting OUT of the biz completely. I was not going to go to another "nice" agency only to be gotten bought out down the line.

If there is any way at all that you can avoid working for them, I would do that, and spend your new free time seriously looking for another line of work.

All you have to do is read down the list of threads on this board - anon

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And it will tell you everything you need to know and more, about what you would be getting yourself into.

"Not so sure about it?" It would take me literally two seconds to decide, if I were you.

not interested - mtunemployed

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Honestly mmodal does not seem that interested in us.

No offense, but they are not interested in you, just your accounts - so they can send them to India

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They will feed you a line of garbage, and it is all lies. I still have my propaganda emails they sent us when they bought out our company and every single thing they "promised" was a blatant LIE. They will "take you" and lay you off or fire you as soon as the accounts are in their greedy clutches, then it will go to India in the dead of night and you will be left with nothing but broken promises and strife. Please, spare yourself the misery we are all trying to escape now. Go do something, ANYTHING, else.

I agree. Take this as a golden opportunity to - escape MT for something better.

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run, don't walk - MT Long Gone

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I was an MT for 11 years. I started with eDIX, which was sold after just a few months to another company, we eventually became Spheris. Life was pretty good for the most part, then that dreaded day....we have been acquired by MedQuist (now MM.) That was in February, by August a part-time employer (none MT)offered me a full time job and I ran for my life...I come on there from time to time to see if anything is getting better, it's not, it's getting worse. MM is the biggest reason I won't ever be in the MT field again, they gobble up everything in sight, and I would live just waiting to get that dreaded Email and honestly, I NEVER want to relive that time with them. Start laying out an escape plan now! Best of luck to you and all affected.

See if hospital will move you to another position! - Tired MT

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If there is any position in the hospital you can move to, TAKE IT! Unit secretaries will be making more than you will with MM and you will have better benefits (insurance, PTO, retirement) and you will definitely feel better mentally. If you are already vested in the hospital's retirement program, you will continue earning more later because you will have no retirement with MM. In fact, you probably won't have a job at all by the end of this year when MM cuts all US MTs.

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