I love the K. Long reports, good lines.
Posted By: Amethyst on 2007-10-02
In Reply to: Believe it or not, that account sm - mlstoo
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I love the PT incentive plan. As long as some of the lines are done on SM
the weekend, it is not hard at all to reach the incentive tier. Last check, I had $95 on there that I wasn't really even expecting because I had reached the bonus tier (and didn't even know it LOL).
where they 35 comparable reports - or 35 short and 35 long reports? nm
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Do they have a lot of ESL's and long reports?
I'll get $1.35 per report BUT its a teaching hospital and they route all the longest reports and foulest dictators to me, so heck I might as well make minimum wage anymore. Do they have non-teaching hospital radiology accounts?
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lines versus reports
I have a question for you seasoned radiology transcriptionist. I have been a Transcriptionist since 1995. Most jobs I have worked at required 1150 to 1250 lines per day. I now work for a place that 120 reports per day. I have never had a problem with acheiving my quota until now.............some days we have a lot of long_________dictators and I have trouble reaching the 120 reports. Today I typed 1240 lines, but only had only typed 58 reports by the half of my shift............. On the days that I have mixed reports, some short, some medium, some long, I don't have any trouble meeting my quota. What is the usual requirement per report. I feel like I am spinning my wheels and am very discouraged as I like everything else about this job. I have talked with my supervisor, but I get the feeling she/he does not really want to be bothered.................
at 80+ reports a day, you are getting more than 1000 lines in
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at 80+ reports, you are doing about 2000 lines
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how long are the reports on average?
I've only been paid by the line, so have no idea how many reports do you do in 8 hours? Curious, thinking of applying for MDI-MD radiology account.
Would love to know what type reports
you are transcribing to get 2000 lines at 80 to 90 mins. Personally with my work, the line count is usually pretty close to the minute count, i.e., 90 minutes equals 900 lines.
You get paid 15 lines for reports with any # of blanks
If you do a full listen you get paid for all the lines. They discourage this unless the MT is on 100% proofing because they have a massive backlog. My pay was roughly half of my pay as an MT and I was one who got fired a few months ago because they were doing away with QA's in the US. Can't imagine why they are hiring for US QA's again.
Aren't long reports the worst!
I sometimes get 30-minute reports with dictators who sound like they are eating peanut butter while dictating. I am also exhausted after typing them. I thought it was just me. Surprised to see others find it exhausting too. It zaps the motivation right out of you, especially if your pay is already on the low end to begin with.
-- me --
Actually, I'm kind of looking forward to those long reports..(sm)
I haven't done Radiology on a regular basis since 1997...but I got offered this job and I almost turned it down because I've been doing acute care for so long I thought I wanted to continue with that...but I took the Rad job and it just kind of felt good to type Rad again. I think I was burned out on acute care!
Long reports, much editing to do, headings sm
are made when not needed, headings not made when needed. They've lied about how good the ISR is over here. Straight out lied.
On a good hour, I've only reached 300 lph (only if I've also had straight typing), many hours I am 120 lph, 110 lph on short VR reports only.
Ichart does not give us the # of reports, lines per report,
but does give a pretty instant line count, most of the time. However, that counter is set which ever way the MTSO wants it to be set. They have complete control of that setting and what the MT is paid for.
At least, that is what I was told. Inhouse we could use Ctrl I at anytime to get our exact line count -- true line count with every stroke counting.
Prior complaints of low work loads and only short reports, so struggle to get lines. How about
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I love it. Expander is built into it, as are site notes, sample reports,splchk. nm
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agree, IMEs are great $$, easy reports, miss them, would love to find them
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Minimum lines for FT used to be 60,000 keystrokes a day, about 925 lines. Pay was good. Just not a
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How long does it take you to get those lines and is
it straight transcribing or a mix?
but those were long, long lines for
most of the reports. You could make more with a 65-character line count.
How long does it take you to do 2000 lines nm
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And my lines were often over 80 characters long. NM
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Love Ops, make more lines on Ops than
anything else. If you haven't done it in a while may be slow going until you're familiar with equipment/procedure terminology.
On DQS, how long does it take to see how many lines you get credit for each report? nm
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How long did it take you to build up to 2000 lines a day?
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Good quality reports? Ummm, no.....sm
The reports I edited when I was there were NOT of good quality. Sure, there were a few MTs (maybe 1 or 2) who produced good work with very little errors, but many of the MTs were offshore, and the work was atrocious. Had to fix MANY errors, and unfortunately the MTs never learned from their mistakes. It's frustrating having to correct the same mistakes over and over and over again. Even the American MTs work was not the greatest.
Ditto on good reports for Allstate
I too have NOTHING but great things to say about Allstate and their AIM program. If you are lucky enough to get in, work your butt off to stay in. I have easily learned more in two weeks with Deb and her crew than in all of my previous training! Disregard grumbling posts. I am a real person, and I can personally say that Deb has bent over BACKWARDS for me! Definately worth trying to get involved if you are a newbie.
Not only is it not a good idea to save reports
to show quality, it is ILLEGAL. If you don't know the content of HIPAA, you should not be MTing.
Beyond Text doesn't work long enough to allow you to get any lines. nm
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Had you worked for them very long? How many lines were you averaging each pay period?
That is terrible. I am so sorry to hear that. Best of luck to you in your new job.
My experience of "working with me to get more lines" took too long! I can't sit back and wa
Just my experience!
Oh good grief. They just published their financial reports and
are 100% OUT OF DEBT. They can't file bankruptcy if they don't owe anyone!
It's part of their digging their way out.
You're grapevine must be in the imagination or just another speculator like yourself.
How ridiculous.
I love it. Got my full-time lines first week.
First time in years I am back to making my old money again. A good match for me, at least. IMHO. Been in the business over 26 years and I like it a lot. Can see acct. specs while typing, samples, have normals and inserts, etc. Never a problem and that was from day 1. And I am not a recruiter, I am an MT who has been around the block enough times to know a good think when I have it and to stay put. Good luck to you.
Wouldn't do it. You'll end up with lines that are in the 70 and 80 chars. long length. They
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I work that, had TONS all day long, never ran low got to 1500 lines WITHIN my shift too. nm
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I am able to get my lines/hours in as long as I flex a little within my time window. (sm)
Are you hiring on now or just looking?
i don't know if saving your reports to show quality is a good idea
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I disagree. I love Meditech and it is not slow. I currently do 400 lines/hour with sm
my Expander and have no connecting problems. It is not a dial-up connection, it is VPN with DSL. That might be the difference.
There are also two types of Meditech, Client and Magic. I use Magic and love it and Client is supposed to be even better because it is Word-based.
Different strokes for different folks.
Keep searching. All the good stuff is kept in house now. If you snag Op reports out here, they're
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i proofed a few reports from a filapino and i was shocked at the good quality. wasn't expecting
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It's only good if it's for about 10 lines. nm
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Good luck getting those 10,000 lines
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I heard pay is good, but you have to pay for long
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To be a good RN-you have to love the work. sm
I spent 13 years in the hospital in varying departments, 10 of them as a nurse aide. You can tell which nurses go into it for the money. They don't like to work afternoons, weekends or holidays. They get upset when they get blood or human waste on their uniforms. They can be very rude with the patients. I worked with lots of nurses and my point is, it takes a special nurse to work with sick people 5 days a week and many times over 8 a day. It's not for everybody. If you want to get a feel for nursing, become a CNA first. You can deal with very sick, very contagious patients. You can deal with very nice and also very cantakerous doctors. It's physically demanding, hard on the back, etc. The world needs more kind, caring, patient nurses, not nurses who just love the money earned and yes, it is good. If you love people, take pride in your work and truly don't mind all else that goes along with it-good and bad-then go for RN. But don't just do it for the money. I wanted to be an RN because I loved being a CNA but couldn't continue due to health reasons. I love being an MT because I still am exposed to the medical field, only now I am in the background instead of the front of the field.
Keystrokes is a good one...I love it there...
and only employee positions...
As long as you don't need benefits, good place.
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Seems like the good ones are staying a long time
I know many who have been there 2, 3, and some 4 years. Volumes are up right now, and we've had several new accounts go live in the last couple of months as well.
I have been with co for a long time. I have it pretty good, but new
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My training was good. It was about an hour long and then I was sm
working. I love Keystrokes and I love the account I am on. Perhaps the account you were on had 2 ESL doctors come up first. The account I am on in first in, first out, so there are days that I get mostly ESLs and days that I get no ESLs.
Anyone ever start a job and no long afterwards realize it was not a good
fit and feel stupid quitting right away within a month or two.
No news is good news for me. I check my audited reports all the time
If I need to talk with one of them, I call or IM them. But, no, I have learned that if I am doing a good job, they leave you alone to do your work. They are not in any way a company that micromanages as long as you do what you are supposed to. If you give them a reason to think you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing, they will keep an eye out on your work, etc.
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