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Posted: Jun 21, 2014

Every time there is a hospital or clinic acquisition, those "acquired" MTs will be crammed onto existing accounts as their own account/work types become more streamlined and less available as more and more of it is done more efficiently with voice wreck and 3 shifts of people to do the work. 

Think of it like when a larger dog moves into a pen already crowded with too many dogs. All the pre-existing dogs have to scooch over yet again (exist on less) to make room for the new dog in the cage. 

You will never be told when this is going to happen, of course. 

All the recent talk about capacity optimization? That is just a fancy name for what they been doing all along. Shifting everyone around trying to keep too many clients happy while losing experienced old dogs who just got way too tired of scooching over to make room for the new people all the time just to stay alive. 

Nuance acquisitions - Saphyre

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"Every time there is a hospital or clinic acquisition, those "acquired" MTs will be crammed onto existing accounts as their own account/work types become more streamlined and less available as more and more of it is done more efficiently with voice wreck and 3 shifts of people to do the work"

Is that a true statement? I have been reading about hospitals acquired and MTs being given the option of applying with Nuance, working under Nuance for a year at their same hourly rate, on their same account then transitioning over and somewhere in between. We are being "acquired"; they have all of out IP, ER and DS which we get Xrays, Path, and whatever else is left. None of us are going to work for them at 0.07 cpl when we can make more money by bumping into the hospital.

The same thing also happens if your MTSO - gets acquired by another.

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Statement is true indeed. They lie, repeatedly. - True indeed.

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"...working under Nuance for a year at their same hourly rate, on their same account then transitioning over and somewhere in between. We are being "acquired"; they have all of out IP, ER..."

The time you will be kept on your previous wages varies highly, as the speed with which they can get the report types all polished up enough to be off-shored as soon as possible varies. Remember, in order to cut their own costs, Nuance is highly motivated to LIMIT that amount of time in whatever way possible. Might be 6 weeks, 6 months. Then you just get crammed onto whatever accounts there are on your own platform (some have even had to switch platforms to stay in sufficient work). Everyone's line counts go down when this happens, and you are now just one of us, working for the devil themselves. Stuck, broke, possibly even homeless before long.


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