I googled and found this interesting web site.

• Getting paid by the minute.....how does that work?? - Wondering
  • I was not IC, simply helping out - type-it
    • Oh my goodness!!! Thank you so much! - Wondering
  • Not sure how the pay works, but my friend's min. a day is 100 - minutes of dictation.
    • I googled and found this interesting web site. - Its lengthy, so skip to the part about
    • Should say - minimum per day - she must average 100 - minutes of dictation a day.

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I didn't really look at the whole site, but it does seem to be a national company much like an MTSO that hires scopists.  It also refers to transcriptionists, so they must hire for scoping with transcription experience.

http://www.nationalscopingservices.com/4.html

on VBC characters/pay

http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_05122008p6.shtml

first one is the one you are looking for. 

http://www.keystrokestranscription.com/

http://www.speakingsolutions.com/news/art05.asp

Larry Gibson's name is attached to article at website......

How many fingers are on your keyboard? Or did you just screw up the quote?

 I just spoke to someone from there today.  Not the best representative for the company to say the least.  I asked how many lines per week average and she sang the same song as she did for keyedup in the last group of posts for Compudex.  She said that she would not guaranty linecount because transcriptionists up and quit and have no loyalty.  Maybe that should tell her something.  In order to accept any job, I would want to know what the average line count per week was so that I could assure that I would be making enough money.  Why would she not give out that information???  She said the client would dictate 70 or so short procedure notes and down load them all at once then you have a couple of days to transcribe them.  I do not know, but it sounds fishy.  Oh and also when she left me the message to call her, she made sure that I knew to call the number that she gave me because it was her personal phone number not the company number.  I don't know I am pretty sure if she was offering 15 cpl, I would not take this one, and she was only offering 7. 

Since I have never been under the illusion that any of our medical reports are 100% accurate, while they gather errors and misstatements from speaker to printer, I find this very interesting...I work on a major account for a large MTSO...the account manager has actually told me that the client rarely, if ever, is concerned about the body of the report...only is concerned about headers and footers.   Apparently, the HIM department at the facility is mostly concerned with headers and footers, courtesy copies, etc.  Most of the reports are electronically signed.  So, unless the doctor actually proofreads, they pay no attention.  The only dictator on this account who has ever made corrections to the report body, as far as I know, is a PA who talks a mile a minute but seems to expect 100% superhuman perfection on the part of the transcriptionists.  For all I know, the QA people might have been instructed to correct the report body or fill in the blanks in whatever way works best, including deleting entire sentences.

Again, IMHO, some of the reports can be nearly accurate, or a near-accurate representation of the speaker's opinions, which may or may not be accurate, but I doubt that the medical reports are 100% accurate with regards to the patient or the situation.  There is too much room for human error, misinterpretation, incorrect editing, etc.  Medicine is an art, not a science.  Furthermore, any medical provider who reads previous patient repors as part of the medical record and accepts them at face value, drawing conclusions from them, is doing the patient a grave disservice.  Their education is supposed to teach them the power of discernment.

With that being said, it seems to me that the only ones required to be 100% accurate are those who are subjected to the QA/QC process-the MTs.  Does this seem unfair or what?

Please don't bother to respond to tell me that I should love it or leave it.  I've already decided to move on.  This transcription business is way too oppressive for an MT who is just trying to make a living, doing the best that he/she can do, while constantly being graded.  I've never received a formal QA/QC report below 99%, but I still find the entire process to be distasteful, annoying, insulting, etc.  After all, the client and/or dictators are never critiqued in the same way.

The other thing that I have observed is that many MTs, as a group, are either not able, or not ready, to stand up and support each other in making this business more fair for all.  I guess we just, collectively, know that we are up against a brick wall.

Thank God we live in a free world where choices are our own.

I wonder why some do and some don't.  I would not like to have to clock in and out either.  

That is interesting as when I did a search on the BBB and on here it was pretty quiet and nothing was said but now that I have had it happen to me I see all the remarks popping up all over the place. 

I think all of us who have been scammed by them should get together and get a class action lawsuit going against them to get our money back that would be alot of money they would have to pay us back.  

Everyone who has been messed over by this company lets get together and get a class action suit going we owe it to ourselves to get our money back plus a little bit more for stress caused by all of this.