I make my own decisions
Posted By: what's up with your snotty post? on 2009-01-05
In Reply to: I think you should rule the world - sm
I am an independent contractor, and yes I will tell them what I can and will do and when and how I will do it. If they don't like it, they can choose another contractor.
Don't be jealous because you've allowed someone to take advantage of you!
Show some love! 
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Make informed decisions
I had worked for TransHealth and they did pay for the spaces/headers but I would advise to seek other opportunities. They kept changing mgmt staff and you did not know who was coming or going. A lot of ESL dictation; no incentive whatsoever working wknds or shift differential. They will pay you 10 cpl if you are willing to sacrifice every weekend. Also you might get condescending emails from couple of the QA staff and when there is a huge backlog they send their "panic" emails but when there is no work, you don't hear a peep out of them.
The sticky says "Don't make decisions SM
based on someone's recommendation. and that about covers it. For every single person, it's a trial and error process. What works for me won't work for you, someone recommends a company and you agree, I may not.
decisions decisions...
Wow I faced this very same decision just last month, & thankfully chose Med-Scribe. I am doing OK with them. Since then I have heard so much negative about Soft Script that I am happy with my choice. The pay is not bad, the people are very nice to work with, & the work is not hard.
decisions
I've been going through the same thing on decisions. A lady told me something that made a lot of sense. She had worked different places and told me it depends most on the platform and she had been on enough of them that she could tell right off if she could make money or not. I last began with a really good to work for company that everybody loves. However, it's the docs that make or break you. They have been holding the mike open a lot as they look through the charts on HP, Consult and DS. That really hurts my line count. Also, there's too big a difference in my line count between 1 company and another. Either 1 company's system is giving me too many lines or the other is giving me too few lines. 1200/day at 1 company and 600/day at the other is too big a difference. You'll just have to ask questions and job hop until you find something you can live with.
Informed decisions
You're looking before you even get your info clear? Interesting.
The changes take place Jan 1. Your paperwork has to be submitted by 12/1.
The "firm" schedule is actually MUCH more flexible than any I've ever seen with MQ as you're looking at choosing from 24 hours in 7 days.
Career decisions
I've done nursing and I am here to tell you all that it is not as easy as it looks. The money might be great, but it is so frustrating and exhausting, especially when you are right there on the front lines, so to speak, dealing with life and death right up close working in a somewhat dysfunctional medical system.
If you are young and energetic or just energetic at any age, it might be a viable solution to study nursing. For me, like some others, working from home, at home, is my top priority.
Through the years, I have noticed that many of the really happy MTs are those who do not have to depend on their MT jobs to pay their main bills, but may do medical transcription work part time to supplement their income. No, I am not discounting those who do it full-time and are very successful and really love it; I'm sure they do exist.
However, the suggestions made in this thread make total sense to me, kind of like having the best of both worlds. Now, the challenge is to find that perfect part-time MT job, as well as a really good career with a promising future, doing something else.
Apparently, HR has made their decisions sm
Wanted to thank each and every one of you who responded to me. We will be adding accounts (mainly ortho) by the end of the month and will need more editors at that time. I will be holding each resume and email I received and will be contacting some of you to see if you are still interested.
THANK YOU AGAIN for writing.
Can't base any decisions on what you see on MQ board sm
People come and go all the time. Some leave and then decide to come back. There have been changes but that happens anywhere. Personally, I really like it. Decent benefits, wages and I like the platform. I never run out of work and get paid on time.
After reading some of the posts of other companies, I don't see how anyone can say MQ is that bad.
I'll play - EZ lunch decisions
I don't have to make the decision the night before or in the morning whether to pack a lunch or buy. Can decide to make rice in the cooker, microwave a meal or just eat a sandwich, or even not eat till I'm famished, all up to me and not a clock.
I doubt you will make enough money in 5 hours a week to make
nm
I make 4 cents a line, work part and make
over $500 a week on part.
Great post! I make 0.085 at Keystrokes and make more than at any sm
other company in the last 5 years. Why? Because there is always work for me. I love starting work each day, knowing that the company I work for appreciates me and has plenty of work. Transtech and Keystrokes sound very similar; those of us that work for either can count our blessings that we are not part of the cesspool or huge corporate mess that makes up the biggest few companies. We do not have to worry about our jobs getting sent overseas and we see a future in this business!!!
Yeah, but we don't make what docs make. nm
nm
But we don't even make what in-house make.
It would be different if we made the same as the in-house MTs. In a lot of cases, most of the people working in-house make much more including benefits than we do at home as full-time employees. That's where I think the unfairness comes in. The in-house employees don't all work every single weekend. Most of them rotate at a much higher salary and much better benefits. The MTs at home are expected to fill in for the in-house for less money, less benefits and give more and more back in the form of weekends and holidays. Most remote MTs only receive benefits contingent on production, and even then they're not nearly as good as in-house benefits. How is that equal in the healthcare team perspective?
you might want to make sure you don't make yourself look like an IDOT before you go any further.
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I make $1.10 per report and make much more sm
than by the line. Day by day it varies and goes back and forth, but over a long period, it is better by the report. Make sure they pay links though; this is key.
Do Shapin MTs really only make 6 cpl and QAs make 1.5 cpl?
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Why can't you make money with all OPs? I do all OPs and make
good money. I'm not with WebMedX though.
I'm happy with what I make. I still make more than if I went anywhere else and hardly noone in th
biz gives raises so I feel blessed that I make a lot more than most, raise or no raise.
And always make sure you don't make line
counts that amount to anything. They always place you with impossible ESLs as soon as you start making decent money.
I make more than that with Spheris but never have work. I would rather make $1.25 and have work. s
My SIL works for KS, and she gets paid double for linked reports too. Where do you get $2.25? I am ready to leave Spheris.
Make sure you have some (sm)
money saved up so when they don't bother to send your paycheck or give you excuses, run out of work constantly or take a long time setting you up, you won't go bankrupt.
Okay, those using DQS, how do you do it? How do you make (sm)
your line count? How do you everything??? Is Instant Text V Pro anything like Smartype where you key in a few letters and the list comes up? I'm so stressed from trying to learn this program. Any, and I mean any, positive pointers you can share would so oh so appreciated!!! Please help!
Did you make more as an MT or are you
nm
make, not may nt
Well you would still make more if
you typed 15,000 instead of 11,000.
I make even less than that for IC . Nm : (
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PS - I make top $$
well over 0.10/line on one a/c. Nobody does 20-25 reports/hr on this 100+ MD a/c.
Why not? Do you think they are just trying to make themselves look better on the
to all the outsourcing talk? It's okay now since they got a bonus?
None of what they make you go SM
through is really worth the job you end up with. It's a very average place, with average work, average pay. You can do the same elsewhere without the hassle.
How much do you make (FT or PT)? (sm)
and how are you paid?
see and I say take the IC, just make sure
you have a professional prepare your taxes and find a CPA who is up on at home business laws. I have been an IC for nine years. I get to write off a portion of my mortgage payment, utilities, etc. It works for me.
Me too. I make over $20 but you have to
get in with the right company. Do not let companies undermine QA by accepting positions that lessen our very purpose!
I will not say my company name because needless to say they do not get openings very often and yes they pay hourly.
I make 9.5 cpl as an IC with 27 Y sm
experience. I just started with them.
How is it you don't know what you make?
:+
I know what I make...
I'm just not posting it here.
I make more than that as an MT and am not available 24/7!
nm
MAKE myself
available to the applicants. The companies I have recruited for have told me not to do this, but sometimes you have to. I live on the East Coast and many are from the West Coast. I tell them if they have any questions to call me and I have had people call me as late as midnight with questions. Maybe that is pushing it, but to be honest, the recruiter is the image of the company. If you treat all applicants with respect and with what they say is worth listening to, tell them no question is silly, etc. I also am an MT and a QA person as well as a manager. I know how I want to be treated and I give it back to the applicants.
The job is a good job but it takes a lot of time. You really have to love the job to do it.
I make over $52,000
I love it also. This is with all benefits paid. I have many years in the industry as MT and QA. I definitely do not want to go backwards.
I make more $ doing OPs. nm
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Right there with ya...I make 10-12 cpl
No way would i even consider 7
I'm with you -- there are a few that make me sm
want to pull out my hair by the root, but there are those types everywhere, not isolated to one company/account/whatever.
I averaged around 300 lines per hour at my previous company and average that here at TransTech, so I cannot blame them or anyone else when I have a low production day (that's usually because I allow too many distractions).
Sorry other people are having so many troubles. I was trained at a teaching hospital with hundreds of new residents from all over every year, so I guess I'm used to it. When I get any dictator, ESL or EFL, who speaks clearly and can form a sentence, I feel like writing him/her a love note. (ha)
I used to make that much, too
When my skills and experience were paired with my work, or when I had my own accounts on the side, I used to make really good money and I actually worked 6-8 hour days max. I miss those days. Work AND a life! It's getting more difficult or near impossible to find MT jobs like that anymore, though. Count your blessings, Betty.
I know, not much more....just trying to make myself
nm
I make 9.5 cpl
No bonuses, but I find that I don't need them because it is really easy to get an excellent line count there. The occasionally do offer gift cards for people who volunteer to help out a little extra.
I make around $30 too!!
I refuse to make less than that and I have left companies who don't have the platforms or accounts to make it so. Anyone who makes less than $30 and hour either does not have the speed, know-how/experience, or are not using their templates, word expanders, macros, autocorrect, to their best. I am of course talking about once you are used to an account that is and I am only talking about MTs that have experience, not newbies. I only made $16 my first day, LOL I'll never forget it but I got to $20 within a month. We cannot settle in this business with some of these MTSOs paying too little or giving us lousy accounts. You don't have to settle for that. You just have to put the time and effort into shopping around and take the best one of the pick and then work like crazy to get used to the doctors, build up your word Expander and templates, etc..... There are still some good ones, just gotta do the diggin and it takes a lot of research and time let me tell ya. I do miss the days of gross lines though. It just makes me want to work that much harder to tailor each template and create more words in my ShortHand to try and match those good days and I have only been MTing for 8 years. It has changed so much in those 8 years. I wish I had been doing this outta high school while my girls were little instead of just staying at home. I would be so much better off now. I feel we only have a short time left before everything goes over to VR and I refuse to edit, yuck!! So then it will be back to the drawing board, probably go back to college or try to figure out a way to make money through the internet. One thing I do to make sure I make my money is I refuse high ESL accounts. I tried that once and never ever again. It was a joke. My income dropped to half. I can do them no problem, just not 80%-90%. I'll do maybe 25% which I did for 4 years but that is where I draw the line....
Keep out 30% of what you make to pay The Man and
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I make much more doing ops than other
reports. There are very few medications and other things to look up. You tend to have the same surgeons. Most surgeons say the same thing over and over, so expansions and normals are much easier to make. I would much rather do ops all day as opposed to switching back and forth.
Do you really make 78 cpl??
Do you actually make that much?? I can hardly believe it. IF you do, I want to know where. Although, if MTs get paid that high, it's no wonder the Dr fees are so high! Do you mean 7-8 cpl??
I make..
$22/hour as a hospial employee. I will be typing for one of our vendors as a contractor who is also typing for our hospital and I believe I can make more typing by the line as I already know these doctors.
Make it fun
in an odd sort of way. At this point, after being jerked around by them, I will enjoy whatever time they spend and whatever conversation I have with them. Besides, how much respect can I have for a company that takes part of their exam directly from a popular online magazine (that's also sent free via snail mail) for MTs? The answer key was online as well. I guess this is another insult to me, as they didn't think my research skills would help me to find this? HAH!!
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