I work on Extext and get my own counts.
Posted By: MDI-FL on 2005-12-16
In Reply to: What companies give an accurate EXText line count? - So I will know where to look so I can quit.
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I work for TT, low line counts on ExText for me. nm
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Line Counts and EXText
I work for a company that uses Dictaphone EXText. They deduct 30% off our total line counts for headers and footers, saying they will not pay for it because we do not type it. Of course, we do type it and the template is very time consuming (looking up referrals, etc). Do you think the headers and footers are 30% of the documents? It does not sound right to me.
Why Extext line counts are usually less
Most companies set up the line count to deduct a flat percentage which is supposed to guesstimate how much the headers and footers would be. I know - I used to work very closely with a top person for a very popular/unpopular company that is mentioned on here quite a lot. One of the reasons I left that company was because they used Extext to basically rip off their MT's. I have made my rounds with quite a few nationals and I would have to say that Extext is used in this way by most companies. They deduct a flat percentage. And by the way - counting spaces etc? Don't count on that either. The flat percentage that is deducted for headers and footers also is padded even more. It is a sad state of affairs. You can be certain that they charge the MTSO's a pile of money and it does not reflect in the MT's paycheck. I have my own clients now. Too much hassle with these companies ESPECIALLY those that use Extext which is the perfect format to rip off the MT's.
ExText line counts
I have heard so much about the line discrepancy with ExText and how it is cheating MTs on their lines. Check your lines with Abacas or TextTally. Very accurate counting systems and are free downloads. Does anyone question this with the company or hospital? It is pretty sad to spend 30 minutes on a long note and then see that you are getting paid for about 20 lines. There are better companies out there who do not take away lines from MTs. Ask if they use ExText and then RUNNNNNNNN. Also, many companies will set up the system to give the minimum lines to the MTs but are charging their accounts the maximum. Ask questions and ask for verification of your lines. There are some good companies out there who are honest and fair.
As for line counts on ExText, sm....
that depends on the client and/or MTSO and how THEY configure it to count lines on THEIR END....My last job was on ExText with this client out of florida.....the MTSO had it to where that thing did NOT count spaces, headers, etc....it was SO HARD to get line counts on it, but of course, that was because of the dishonest, full of Indian filled, MTSO.
Line counts not great on ExText, IMO.
No idea why but seems to be the case for me.
Line counts with Dictaphone EXtext
How long should it take to get up to a decent daily line count with Dictaphone EXtext. I have started with a new company and it is not looking good yet. I am hoping it gets better and I can get up to 150 lph. I have had my share of ESL doctors also so far, but they have been okay. Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Also love ExText even though the line counts can be low. Easy to use! nm
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ExText Users: Can we look up line counts per report?
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I, too, went from MQ to TT, and line counts are much harder to get at TT with Dictaphone ExText.
I have always been called *firey fingers*, so know it is not me, as I am very fast and accurate on the keyboard. Line count continually gets harder to achieve. I know it depends on how the company has Dictaphone set the line count parameters -- whether to pay headers, footers, spaces, demos, normals, expanders, etc.
Also speech recognition using ExSpeech at TT is so cumbersome and awful. Really made good money and line count with DQS speech editing. Just must my opinion. Other comments would be interesting.
If Ichart deducts 8% from ExText line counts, you are actually not getting paid for spaces
It is the equivalent of a 70.2 character line with spaces, 65 characters without spaces.
Yes to old reports! Their ExText has all the regular functions except line counts are done on line
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Line counts doing hospital work
Does anyone truly get more than 250-300 lph doing hospital work? If so, where do you work?
Whatever company you work for, you should verify that it counts correctly. sm
Take the document, cut and paste it into Word, count it that way. No way I would take the word of a company or a program unless I can verify my lines.
I do not work for Keystrokes but had to give my 2 cents, whatever it's worth!
Maybe so, her work was bad & she didn't meet line counts
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I work on that account, NO problems with line counts or the requirements! sm
I have heard of putting the entire team on QA, I have had it happen before. I got released back after 24 hrs because I was fine.
There are issues with a couple of things on that account. It will likely come down to some of the MTs not being allowed to work on that account any longer, which leaves more work for the rest of us. The communication about the issues they are now addressing with 100% QA for all of us have been thorough and when I have not understood something I have asked for clarification. I have one concern that I feel certain they will call me on and that is fine because I can alter my ways and make sure it is right.
I don't know what is wrong with some of you. I suppose there are MTs who don't believe in doing the job 110%. If you are productive AND accurate, you can make very good money at TT, I certainly do. If you think the pay is low, move on...if you are good enough to find another job. TT is a CHOICE for me because when I was looking last fall, I had no fewer than 10 offers and entertained them all, but went to work for TT because I felt I would be happy there. No surprise to me, I am extremely happy.
The 100% QA is not something I am taking personally because it would seem to me that the only way to address the issues at hand is to do this very thing.
Venting- how can you make money or get line counts when all the work is given to someone else!
Nothing seems fair anymore. Does anyone else ever have this happen?
I work on Docuscribe (not MQ) and have also worked on Chartscript in the past. My line counts went
down significantly when I went to the DQS platform. Don't know if it is being manipulated or not, just simply stating the facts as I have seen them.
Low line counts; paying long distance; getting crap work skipped by others.
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C-phone accounts aren't any better, not enough work to make line counts there either. Sigh
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I work on ExText and like it.
I really like ExText. They have made it pretty easy to use. I feel their cpl rate is about average. There are certainly worse paying companies out there.
I work on EXText - nm
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I currently work with ExText and use Shorthand....
It works GREAT! I have over 15,000 shortcuts saved in it and am CONSTANTLY adding more. I work on an acute care account. HTH!
I work in ExText and love it
My main account is mostly templates, and it is an extremely easy ER account with about 8 doctors. I easily do between 400-500 lines per hour on that account. My secondary account is on Chartscript, and I do about 300-350 lines per hour on that account. I love them both.
Anyone still have dial up and work on Extext? sm
How does this work for you? I am afraid I will have to be on dial up for a while after I move and just wondering if anyone has any problems with it. A friend of mine has been on dial up with Extext for years and i have heard that Extext and DocQScribe works ok with Dial up. TIA.
Does ExText work with satellite? E-mail me please nm
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Extext companies with plenty of work
I need to know what Extext companies have plenty of work right now and I can go work immediately and be able to download work. I'm tired of having no work and no money. 
Any Extext companies with LOTS of work NOW?
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TransTech also uses ExText, but think they were running out of work, too. Any comments? nm
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ETrans is looking for PT people on Extext for clinic work sm
I spoke to the recruiter on Friday, 10/24. I don't do clinic and I prefer to work in Extext, but they don't have OPs and cardiac stuff, which is all I do. I THINK she said she had rheumatology, psych and ortho on Extext, all clinic stuff. It is EtransPlus. You can look on Job seeker's or email me for her email address.
9cpl and 11 cpl for weekends. Use ExText. My ExText version wasn't compatible with theirs
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How are the MW accts that use the ExText? Good sound? Lots of work? Acute care or clinic? Thx. nm
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off counts
Truthfully if it was a small enough discrepancy then I would and yes I could find a different job but it could just be that I need a different line counter. Do you use a line counter and if so which one do you use. Using MT Stars, Abacus, and Word Traverse I get a count of 1717 and I-Chart gives me 1655.15; MT Stars, etc. 1409, I-Chart 1350.55; MT Stars, etc. 1144, I-Chart 1088.32. If all the counters that I have used gave me all different counts I would be done with it but these 3 give me identical counts. As stated before in actuality its not really that bad because on the bigger picture its not that much money but this seems to be escalating and in order to monitor that I would need a comparable line counter which is the reason I asked what line counters others might be using. The problem could very well be that I just need to try a different line counter.
If you mean the 3 that are all together, that counts as ONE.
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Getting line counts up
I recently was hired for a national company, after having worked in-house for about 5 years in a physical therapy clinic. I'm still in the training status. Every day when I check my line count, I cannot believe it! It's in the 200-250 area. I know I'm slow, having to look up almost all drugs, many procedures, etc., and I'm adding to the expander program every day, but I don't see how I can get a lot faster. We don't get credit for header information and oftentimes this takes several minutes to look up, add to, correct.
Any suggestions/comments are welcome!
yes i have compared counts
of canned reports too. Your latter supposition is logical, and being on internet allows for more 'wandering' with ones time as well.
Line counts
Does anyone out there or has anyone out there worked for Transtech Medical Solutions and if so could you provide some input on their line counts and why there are 3 different platforms to figure your lines that give you 3 different figures and final line count is lower than those 3 platforms. Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks
LINE COUNTS
Be that as it may but have you have problems with your line count W?
line counts
I was given $10 guaranteed hourly for the first pay period, unless I did more than the 12,000 lines. That was a joke because I, like you, was, and still am, getting awful dictators. I did not make the 12,000 line requirement until 5 pay periods later. You will get there.....eventually. I can only dream what my line count would be if I had some decent dictators!
Line Counts
Line counts are pretty easy to get. I don't have any problem, but of course, the longer you are with any company/account, the easier line counts get. They require 150 lph, but they aren't sticklers about it, if you don't. (It took me a few months to get to 150, but then after that, 175-180 is about the norm). They let you pick your schedule. They are pretty flexible with that. I work a split shift and it works out great. They have excellent shift differentials. They use Shorthand as their Expander and if you're already using it, you can transfer it in. They have quality equipment. You don't spend a lot of time waiting. As far as demographics go, for the most part, it all pre-fills. Occasionally, you will get a patient you have to look up the name for, but it's easy and doesn't take long. It's an easy system to get used to, as well. You don't have to have 6 different windows open to do one thing. They have normals and examples easily available for different dictators, etc. Overall, it's definitely worth applying and taking the test. (The tests have caused problems for some folks - there's a written one and then 3 or 4 dictation samples).
Line counts
I sure did not have trouble getting between 250-350 lines per hour when I was with MDI at 11 cpl. I quit to take a radiology position that pays gross. The Bayscribe platform is very user friendly and I never had trouble with any of my accounts (2).
Line Counts
I average 250-300+ lph on my acute care account at MDI.
line counts
I most certainly did read it. I was stating that when I paste report into Word it does agree with the DQS line count, not that it does not agree.
I think you are right on both counts.... I know of a few people in sm
key positions who have handed in their resignations after seeing what Medware was willing to do.. and these are people whose absence will make a significant difference in how some important things will get done... and these are things that the hospitals will definitely notice... I have a feeling the worst is yet to come to them for being so greedy.. If having outstanding MTs is all they need to get by.. well then.. as of now they will likely be okay because those MTs who are there are just that...but. I think mgmt is in for an awakening... :)
Line counts
It really depends on how many characters you do in a day. For instance, if your total chars are 50,000 - then divide that by 65 csl and you get 769 lines total. And the same for a 72 csl - divided by 72 would be 694 lines total.
So the more chars you type the more lines it turns out to be. Figure 85,000 chars would get you 1,307 lines!
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Line counts
Again, I want to ask what can be done bout something... The way are lines are calculated by the MTs is to take 24 x the number of reports we have done in a day and that is just a guesstimate I am told. The owner has a line-counting program called Docu-Count and we do not have have access to that program. Again, when we get our paychecks.. it just shows the line count but we have no way of knowing exactly what our line count is compared to the what the owner comes up with. I have asked a person there at the office who helps with payroll and explained that my line counting program comes up a lot more than the one they use at the office and the response to me was I have to go. Does anyone besides me find this odd and know what I can do about it.. Im afraid to ask him for fear that I will lose my job and I need this job right now. TIA.
line counts
Well, that's good to know. Do you know if we are paid for the headings in the report? I think that might make the difference. I literally go from one IC job in the morning, making right at 300 lph, to struggling for 200 to 225 at Precyse. If we are paid for the headings (which we should be, because they don't appear out of thin air and they all take at least 3 keystrokes), then maybe I'm just too tired to pull off 300 lph at a second job.
verifying counts
My mom and I both worked at the same in-house hospital. We both verified by typing the same report in Word and doing a character count divided by 65.
TT Line counts
Since the Ichart line counting program for TT has been having problems, I have noticed that my line counts have gone down. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I am starting to get worried about it.
TIA
line counts
anyone working for TTS having trouble with their line counts?
TTS line counts
An email was sent out to all about that earlier. It appears to be an ongoing issue with Dictaphone, and probably something they have no control over. I am sure they will get it straightened out soon, they can't afford not to.
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