Anyone work for Spheris doing VR? Could you share experience, pay, line count etc..

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I am a newbie at Spheris and the health care package was offered last month.  I am not making the line count.  My line count is around 250-300 a day, full time, but my QA scores are 100%.  I know some would argue that with such a low production, my QA scores should be 100%,but I was told accuracy comes first.  Can someone shed some light on how long I can hang in at my low production,and will I keep my benefits if I do not make the line count soon.  I have been struggling on since August.

Thanks

signed off the report I was typing.  Those lines didn't add immediately, but sometimes they do that.  What concerns me is that when I signed that job off and the next one came up, not only were the other lines not added in but they were LESS than they were before I signed off previous job.

I thought I noticed this happening the other day, but figured I just wasn't paying attention.  Today I definitely noticed it.  For some reason it changed it's mind and took 8 lines off my line count.  What the heck? 

Am not really ecstatic with the way things are going anyway  and then this confuses me. 

Please, someone have a realistic explanation so I don't feel paranoid and cheated here. 

Do you mean they are terminating MT's for that recently? 

Who has this happened to?  To whom?  Let us know.

Surely there is some other reason than not making lines when we have been running out of work the last couple of weeks.

I am at my last fork in the road so to speak.  I have tried to work from home for almost a year now.  I like to think of myself as a person who can make the best out of a bad situation, which I am slowly finding out is not the case.  I have been with 3 different companies and I thought I had done my homework on each.  Come to find out that after 2 to 3 steady paychecks I either do not get paid or the work dries up with no explanation on either when asked. 

I am currently working for a company that is stating they will put the $$ in the bank on last monday, then wednesday, and are now not sure when we will have it. 

I am a firm believer in giving at least a 2 week notice, but I am now in a situation where if I do not get paid I am going to be late on my house payment for a second month, with a 400.00 late fee. AGAIN.

My questions are as follows,

1.  Is it ever okay NOT to give 2 wks.

2.  I am still typing, should I stop or just keep going like nothing is wrong?

3.  What would you do????

Thanks all I just need some great advice and have been seeing how helpful you all have been to everyone else and hope you will share a little insight with me.

to trickle in.  The pay is good, always on time, Q/A is not good, platform is good.  In my opionion, they have over hired on many accounts and this causes a lot of down time therefore causing you to work all day and night long to get in your counts in...if you don't care about hearing requested dictation completed....good company!   

I have had the same accounts for up to 15 years.  On my surgeons with even charging 12 cents a line I can often make $50 to $60 an hour with their consults.  I think it is fair.  They pay within 48 hours, never a bounced check, got $500 Christmas bonus.  I can do them in my sleep.    They never question my line counts.  It is 60 characters to a line and gross lines, not character count.  On a consult for breast cancer, that is 3 to 4 pages,  probably type 50 lines as the physical is so standard.  If I charged more I would feel like I was ripping them off.  I make a decent living and so  pass it onto them.   I gross over 11,000 lines per month with them and work 5 to 6 hours per week.   They like the smaller amount per line.   My other is a clinic that I have a lot of auto corrects set up and still make $35 an hour and so why charge them an arm and leg when I am making decent money.  My sub's make close to $25 an hour as they aren't quite as fast as I am and don't use as many quick corrects but at 8 to 9 cents they average 250 to 350 (psych reports) per hour.   So we are all happy.     Half way through the year I myself  have made $26,500.   And that is with a slow June. 

I currently work for an oncologist and I do not get paid by the line, but rather a straight salary every month. Can some one tell me about how much typing is involved if expected to type 1800 lines per day??

Thanks

Tammie

see not really being the 1 that you get? 

Then you need to be doing more than  1000 to 1500 lines per day.  So work on getting you line count up.    If you want to make the big bucks, gotta put in the time and effort.  Or like you say get your own accounts but it takes time, dedication and hard work to have your own accounts like the poster below says.  Good and bad to both but bottom line is get your line count up -- if you can. If you can't you need to go somewhere else where you can.   

I figure my own line count, I am an IC.  I use gross line count now, so the 65-character line count is a new thing for me.  I know they divide the characters by total lines and just wanted to make sure that was the correct procedure to figure -

thanks for the help too!!!