I know it's a production-based incentive and tiered but I cannot remember the specifics, get with
Posted By: memt on 2005-10-27
In Reply to: DSG Incentive plan - MTTTTTT
your recruiter and she can go over it in detail. There is no shift differential or weekend differential of which I am aware, it is all based on production.
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WebMedX has tiered incentive plan (sm)
...based on your line per hour rate. It's nice, and I usually wind up making 2 cents more per line that way - for every line typed, not just every line over the minimum (the way it was at my last place).
So I'm pretty happy. Don't know much about Axolotl, but it doesn't sound too bad based on the side-by-side comparison somebody made above.
I make 9 cpl on a tiered incentive system
at the bottom rung, going up on 0.5 cpl increment up to 11 cpl as an employee. I also make 10 cpl at my IC job.
Many hospitals around here have tiered production pay scales. SM
And they are also starting to let their employees go home and work, as well as their coders. I would work for a hospital any day over a service.
I think E-MTS does. Don't remember specifics. Check them out. nm
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They don't pay production incentive?
The hospital I used to work for did. We had one gal who could type double what the rest of us could, so she got more pay. She used to work part-time for a national, too, because she could never find a national with benefits comparable to the hospital. I don't think you're going to find a national with decent benefits. You also run into their lousy platforms affecting production, low pay, demo screens, ESLs, poor sound quality, etc. I wish I had stayed at my hospital. I thought I could make more working for a national but I haven't been able to yet. Chalk that up to another stupid career decision on my part.
Do either offer production incentive?
nm
Hmm, funny, I have production incentive on MY check!
nm
Production incentive meaning overtime
Then it would be legal.
Production bonus/incentive escription?
Anyone know of companies who offer those?
Yes, the incentive was based on
number of minutes dictated/transcribed. For example, if the report I loaded was 2 min/50 seconds and the incentive was 25 cpm-- I would get an extra 50 cents (give or take for the 50 seconds). We have to keep track of all the minutes and there is usually a required minimum of 500 minutes that you have to transcribe in order to be eligible. There are also time constraints -- like it only runs for 4-6 hours. You also have to maintain your commitment for the rest of the pay period. That's the only type of incentive I've had my account and they're not very often -- I think they ran it twice (maybe three times) in the last 6 months.
I hope your accounts pick up soon. 
Transcend no longer offers production incentive. Gone.
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Pay is based on production.
They have a few different levels. Maximum pay rate is for 225 lph minimum. That schedule is in the process of being revised and s/b finished within the next few weeks, most likely upward to our advantage and to include shift differential. For more details on the current pay rates, you may want to speak to a recruiter since I don't want to give incorrect details. I'm at the top pay level, and I make good money there, but there are other programs as well (like Star team). There is also weekend differential. Pay on holidays is time and a half if you work plus straight holiday time, which is why I almost always volunteer to work holidays if my daughter is with her dad.
Their pay is average. They pay based on your production. nm
nm
Very good company. Incentive pay for production plus shift and weekend differentials. sm
Their platform is stable (proprietary, I've been on it for about a year and a half now). Pay is always on time. Good support staff. Their insurance changed this year. Plenty of work. They don't overhire on their accounts from what I can see. If anything, there is always plenty of work, which I like because I can hop on outside of my regular shift and get some more lines. Now that they pay extra for weekends, I like to pick up some extra hours then.
Yes. Their line rate is based on production with a minimum
per pay period (twice a month) of 3500 lines. I think that 3500 lines per pay period only pays around .065 cents a line though. 5000+ lines a pay period is 8 cents a line. They are IC, but they do pay the employer portion of Soc.Security (kind of like statutory). They pay for black and white 65-character line (spaces included). Hope that helps.
then you get changed to a production-based position according to my offer letter
NM
Easy platform, PTO if you are employee, production incentive, direct deposit, work flow varies on
different accounts, but usually have enough to keep busy, lots of QA feedback.
Webmedx offers a production bonus based on your lines per hour sm
over a minimum amount. Amount varies by amount produced. Not split in a pot like mentioned above. I don't understand how that would work?
Great incentive plan, but based on speed/lph not total lines produced. Works if you are fast.
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A combo hourly/incentive or straight hourly rate based on
A platform where MTs have had major input in developing it.
10 annual days of PTO, at average hourly rate.
Affordable, decent health insurance.
QA done by very experienced high-level MTs, with open and respectful communication between QA and the MTs.
Also, they have a tiered pay scale. sm
So be aware of that when considering them. The pay is good if you stay 10,001 lines and above but if for some reason the work slacks off and you fall to 6,000 or less, you get less per line. Something to think about.
Yes, they still have the tiered pay scale. I
thought I would like it, but I really don't like it too well. If the platforms were more user friendly, it could work out well, though.
My company has a tiered system
wherein you are paid a benefit time rate according to how many lines you produce, i.e., 175-200 lph you make 9 cpl but benefit time for PTO purposes is $12/hr. and so on.
I missed the tiered thing, but was going to apply
Is it tiered based on difficulty or tiered based on amount of lines typed? One makes sense to me, the other doesn't.
Watch out for companies that do the tiered thing-
Only they called it leveling. They leveled everyone the same, whether you had 2 months or 20 years of experience, everyone got the same lousy pay.
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specifics
I was interested in learning what experiences other transcriptionists may have had with this company, i.e. rate of pay, platform, problems anyone may have had. I've been with another company and I need to find something that I am not working so many different accounts that I can't make decent money.
What specifics do you want to know? sm
There is plenty for work right now. Pay is direct deposit for IC and employee. Line count pay varies according to account and type of work you type as well as time of day. Can't remember the specifics.
I work as an IC, and for now I need whatever income I can get. It suits my needs just fine.
Specifics
Okay, I was hired twice by this company. The first time she wanted someone to start yesterday and offered me 9 cpl and spent time loading their program onto my computer, and then......nothing for several days. No files, no response to my emails, nothing. This went on for a week and I was offered a full-time position at the company I was with at the time. I took that and emailed the owner of VS,LLC and was told they made promises based off of my commitment and they had been waiting for me to contact them and let them know when I could get started. They were wondering why they had never heard from me. Well I am not an idiot I had emailed them and been very specific on the phone with them about wanting to start immediately. I had even emailed them with outlook and attached a read reciept and had been notified that they had read it. When I pointed this out to her, she suddenly had all my emails that she supposedly never got and kept emailing me begging me to work starting right then. When I explained that I had already started full-time with my current company I got a somewhat nasty email that I just thought was more frustration than anything. Well fast forward a year and a half.... I was used to my full-time now and looking to add part-time for savings and extra. I saw VS's ad and thought it might be worth a try again. Well the pay had gone down to 8 cpl. Not what I was looking for, but better than average anymore. Went through all the steps again. Emailed about setting up training again with read reciepts, everything this time was with read reciepts. Well again with the we need someone to get started right away so hurry up and wait. 4 days I waited and emailed and waited. Well, I had also applied for other positions and the 4th day I had been offered one of the other positions I had applied for. I email the owner of VS this and that if she cannot get me trained and started then I must move on as she had told me she would start me immediately. I had in fact cancelled a weekend out of town with my family because I was supposed to train immediately. I heard nothing for a day and a half and had received the read reciept, so I know she got it. Then I get an email saying they had not received any of my emails. I send back that I had read reciepts on everyone of my emails. All of a sudden she is sending replies to me from the emails that she supposedly had never received. Then she tells me how she had tried, and tried all day Saturday trying to call me and never answered and asking me if I knew how to even use the telephone! Seriously! I told her nice try as I had been at home all weekend waiting for her call and still had the calls on my caller ID from the whole week before and not one call from her, imagine that. Well I told her that obviously it was not meant for us to work together and that I could not work like this. I mean if this was the way it was before I got started imagine how it would be after I got started. I received several more extremely rude emails from her before I finally had to email her telling her to stop and that I was blocking her email. I mean how unprofessional! I was here and more than ready and willing and able to get started and even sacrificed a weekend with my family to get started/going right away.
Now having said all that, I know a lot of people have a lot of negative things to say about DSG and I had an absolutely wonderful, and I mean wonderful experience with DSG for 4 years. I only left due to health reasons and lack of ability to be dependable until I could get my health taken care of, which I did and am all better now and have been for a couple of years. So maybe if you get started with VS, LLC it is good. Maybe you will not have the experience I had. There are previous posts about VS,LLC not paying and I had decided in for myself to try anyway, so it is up to you. Just go in prepared for anything (as you should with any company) if you decide to go ahead. Good luck in your choice it sure is hard these days to sift through everything. I would not have taken the chance based off of old posts with VS,LLC if it had not always been a part-time thing for me. I mean if I was looking for a bread and butter company I could not afford to take the chance of not being paid. I hope this helps:)
Yes they do although each account has its own specifics.
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Keystrokes specifics....SM
Per Keystrokes employee handbook:
FT = 15,000 lines/pay period
Adjusted FT = 10,000 lines/PP
Line rate will vary depending on experience and any shift differential.
Anyone got specifics on working with the
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I sent her an email asking for more specifics.
Did you think to ask about acct specifics?
What you think might look better and what the client requires are two different things. Often when a client receives expansions that they specifically ask NOT to be done, they go back to the client and yell and in some instances ask for a credit. The transcription company isn't going to take the chance if the specifics are that rigid. As for the name of the facility - I'd think you could just ask?
MDI QA question- can QA see specifics about
the jobs that are on the WAV system of Bayscribe? Because one of the QA on my accounts magically appears out of nowhere to help out when there are standard operative reports available. I think it is very unfair and rude, but she wants 'em so she takes 'em. If she is getting paid to QA I think she should keep her mitts off the transcription. JMHO. Maybe other QAs are doing the same thing and picking off lines that should be left available for us to fulfill our commitments.
Not knowing the specifics
I can think of a lot of reasons why, although I'm not involved in any way in this specific circumstance. If the client has become too difficult to work with- impossible turn-around times, dictators with too my individualized preferences, nit-picking (yes, they do it on the hospital end, too), and an unwillingness to pay the requested rate, I can see where it would be just as easy to not renew the contract. If the MTSO knows it has new account(s) coming on or that it has enough work for the staff it has, it could easily let a difficult account go. Much the same way some transcriptionists will take easier accounts that pay less but they can type more, I would assume MTSOs make the same choices.
All Type - anything good or bad? specifics
I'm looking for specifics. Well aware of job board.
thanks for nothing. why even take the time to reply like that????
Can you give me any specifics on this company?
Could you give me any specifics on this company? I would like to know more. Thanks.
Account specifics are different, but they changed
6 times last week, and I'm sure they'll change again. No one seems to know what is going on.
The transition is difficult for me too. I was a diehard WP5.1 fan and I DO NOT like Shorthand. I'm still using my mouse way too much and trying to use my WP commands. I've lost a couple of reports and done some other strange things because I've tried to use my WP commands/macros.
I probably only got 40 minutes of dictation tops yesterday and I hope things start picking up soon.
Are their account specifics complicated?
What about vacation time? Thanks for any info!
Got my answers, they posted an ad with specifics.
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Don't worry. The account specifics, etc (sm)
are all just a hot key away from your platform. You can pull it up at any time you are in the report. It is broken down very simple (only a page) and gives you exactly what you need as far as formatting, do's, don'ts etc. I was up and running within an hour after training. You'll be okay, you really will
Nightmare account specifics
As someone else has already stated here, the account specifics generally come from the client, not the service you work for (though they certainly can interject their own hoops to jump through and other insanities via their QA guidelines). I once started a new client with a new service and was presented with account specifics that totaled well over 120 pages, and the account supervisors forwarded me 75 helpful e-mails in my first couple of hours there, all of which detailed additional specifics for that one account. That's just nuts. I feel your pain.
Confused about account specifics
I won't say the name of the company but I have worked for a certain company for several years with very specific account specifics. They are putting everyone on speech rec. but they have another set of account specifics for speech. In other words if you type regular transcription you must abide by the AS to a T but if you type speech rec. on this account you can just leave it as is. This makes no sense to me to have 2 different AS according to whether or not you type speech rec. That means they will get reports with no specific guidelines at all on their end. Is this true for all MTSOs nowadays or just the one I work at and again I will not state the name just because.
Kim, the recruiter, will happily e-mail you specifics
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Several posts recently on mtjobs.com for Rad. Don't know specifics. nm
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Can you give specifics? Are the benefits at least any good? nm
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Give some specifics on how he's "loved by all" if you're going
to try to speak for everyone.
Can you please give specifics? Need facts to make
nm
Can you give specifics about why I-chart is a rip-off? Not flaming,
nm
They can't route you to where you need to be unless you know company and location specifics, sm
which obviously she does not know because she isn't an employee there yet. She stated she is just wanting an idea. How many insurance companies have you called? I used to do billing and I can tell you we had to have the insurance card and/or EOB in hand to know all the correct numbers to call based on the patient's specific policy details.
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