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Nuance new fiscal year starts Oct 1, that's why they sm - acuteMLS

Posted: Sep 26, 2014

want all the accounts bottomed out over this weekend. Work done prior to Oct 1 counts as revenue for current fiscal year.

Well, how cheap can they get? - show us some real incentive

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Show us the money, not this piddling "double your crappy PTO" incentive.

Gosh, they must think we are dumbos, honestly.

The real problem as far as I'm concerned is that no matter how good you are, let's face it, the quality of the dictation is very bad and getting worse due to I believe a lot of the good dictators going to some point and click EMR and us being left with the dregs.

I don't know about you, but I really hate doing any accounts other than my primary and secondary, and I know I can't get a decent line count when I am forced to do all these tertiary accounts, so this whole PTO thing is obviously another thing (like FIESA) cooked up by someone who knows nothing about transcription or our current situation whereby we are already scrabbling to make decent line counts.

My PTO rate goes down every quarter, I work very hard to keep it above minimum wage even, so why oh why would I give them a chance to cut it massively by doing all this extra work which will lower my lph and lower my PTO rate?

For this to be a true incentive, the impetus must come from their end - how about paying lph x1.5 flat out instead of the convoluted formula Nuance pays whereby if you're lucky you make an extra few dollars per hour for OT? That way you would get the extra money to encourage OT even if you are stuck with terrible dictators on awful, unfamiliar accounts with tons of specs (which you will be). Still won't make much, but at least you are not destroying your own lph count and PTO rate to help them out.

This stinks in so many ways that nobody should get near it.

They just don't get what makes this job worth doing, or they just don't care.

I agree. The audio on the majority of the jobs is sm - acuteMLS

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horrible with static and cutting out, and that's before we even get to the quality of the dictator, which is also horrible. Fast speaking, you slow the dictation down as much as technically possible and still can't understand, what can I do with this? Put in blanks. Get yelled at for all the blanks. I don't get why they don't have any standards as far as the quality of the dictation they accept. It's like whatever the client feels like sending, if the dictator is on a cell phone flying down the road with children in the car and the radio on, they accept that and they shouldn't.

Are you working in ExText on a horrible account in MD by - any chance?

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DREGS. Some of these reports I'm doing, there are not even any recent reports showing in the system for, like, 2 years, so I think it is an "overflow" or something, another company's castoff.

No I'm on Enterprise nm - acuteMLS

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