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Fed up with Nuance - suggestions for other companies? - suggestions?

Posted: Dec 03, 2013

I have just about had it with Nuance. Does anyone have any suggestions for other companies? I have a little bit over a year of experience doing acute care. I was hoping I could stick it out with Nuance to get at least 2 years of experience but I don't see that happening and I know most places want at least 2 years. Please help me! Thanks

My guess would be you need to stick it out--sm - anon

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or train for a different line of work. There seems to be more MTs than there are positions to fill and many of those MTs have been in the business for a very long time. Bare minimum, I would suck it up until you have that 2 years and after that I would not quit unless you absolutely had something better. In fact, I would work both jobs until I was certain the new one was better.

Overall, most MT jobs have a lot of the same problems, over-staffing, bad VR, and the pay is in the crapper.

Fed up with Nuance - Fed up

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Get out as fast as you possibly can. I have been with Nuance for over a year, have 15 years of acute care, and it is the absolute worst company I have ever worked for. Will not pay their employees, cut wages, cut incentive programs, pulled me from my accounts of over 15 years to be outsourced to Canadian account where I lost money but I had to relearn the entire account. Cut our PTO time, deny any OT, insist we must have 40 hours time even if no work is available. It is really a bad company, don't stick it out it's not worth it.

Unfortunately, the key part of her post is she only has 1 year--sm - anon

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When you have 15 years experience, you have more options, you have earned those options. When you have 1 year experience, if you hope to continue in the field, your options are very limited, you have to pretty much accept what you can get in transcription (which is most often now Nuance or MModal) or move on to something else. The chances of finding some small company that is willing to take a risk on someone with little experience is next to nil as most of the small companies are gone now.

Try applying - forever transcriptionist

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in the medical records department of a rehab center. Hospital stays for the elderly are very limited now, with most going to a rehab center for physical therapy, recovery, etc. Also, I would consider retraining for a hands-on position such as dental assisting, respiratory therapist, etc. Transcription and coding will eventually be gone, unless you find a doctor willing to stay in private practice.... will not happen with the ACA.

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