Keystrokes has very few accts on line using ExText. Most use Cphones/2nd line. Lots of Rad
Posted By: accts. nm on 2007-02-12
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Yes to old reports! Their ExText has all the regular functions except line counts are done on line
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Are all DRC accts on Cphones?? nm
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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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TransTech and Keystrokes also offer some Dictaphone ExText accts. Very easy to
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Someone else asking if you still need a Cphone & 2nd line to work for them. Any internet accts? nm
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They did away with the WC, but still need a Cphone & 2nd line as no internet accts. In past, they
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A line is a line is a line. Doesn't matter if we are talking about radiology or acute care.
1600 is not a fair minimum requirement. Sure you can achieve 1600, it shouldn't be the required minimum.
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.
EXTEXT-LINE COUNT
Someone tell me how EX-Text word/line count calculates 10,000 lines and it results in 8,500 on company-end? Headers, demographics/footers count THAT much difference?
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That is because you are not management, and that is who posted! 
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.
You need a second line as you use a Cphone, which she will lend to you. Said she had lots of work.nm
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Lots of companies pay 1.5 times line rate
for holidays, but unless you work all day it doesn't add up to much. My company pays for us to take the day off and then if you work you get your line rate, plus get paid anyway, or you can take another day off in the same pay period.
Line counts not great on ExText, IMO.
No idea why but seems to be the case for me.
I work for TT, low line counts on ExText for me. nm
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I'd sure like to know how to get a great line count on ExText.
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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.
Means a line is a line is a line, even if it only has one word on the line
it is considered a line.
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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ExText line count for individual reports? Is there a way? nm
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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.
It's the ExText software. Easy to use. Has it's own expander, if you want, and line counting b
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What companies give an accurate EXText line count?
Either an accurate count or the option to check your own!
I agree - hard to get decent line count with ExText...sm
Good to know other people are having the same issue as I thought I was just getting slower in my old age! Seems like I can do almost twice as much with DocQScribe and escription.
Ctrl i in EXText for us MT's with TT gives a higher line count, because we do not get paid
for everything that that function shows. I-chart is as close to the exact amount of lines we get paid for than anything that we have. Ctrl i was blocked from us, but lately opened up for us to use; however, it is not what we get paid for. Hope this helps you.
Just checked line count for another GREAT Extext company
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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.
Line rates for Dictaphone EXText Correction Client (speech)
What are the going rates for EXText correction client? Anyone else working on this now?
I agree. The line counter is a pain, but I've checked lots of reports against MS Word
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"a line is a line" means gross line.
Gross line is a line, no matter how long or short.
Keystrokes line count - see msg
I have read on this board that there are people who work at Keystrokes that are getting 2000 to 3000 lines per day. How is that possible? I am relatively new to Keystrokes and I struggle just to hit 1000 lines in 8 hours. I am not a slow typist and I use an expander. When I did transcription locally I did on average 350 lines an hour, going as high as 500 lines an hour with one of the doctors. Do you just not get the ESL docs? What I am doing wrong? 
Keystrokes Line Counts
Hi,
I am a new hire, while they are very friendly and nice to deal with, I don't understand the gross line counts, dividing totals by 65, I never done this and I have been transcribing for 20 years. This does not seem fair. Over the last 5 years, I was making $30.00 an hour and now I am making $11.00. This is ridiculous!
Keystrokes, line counts, etc.
I have worked for them for over 2 years and I couldn't be happier. They are the BEST company I have ever dealt with and over my 31 years as a transcriptionist, I have dealt with many, both as an in-house employee, an IC, and an at-home employee. So, that said....I have never had any problem with pay or line counts or anything like that. Everyone I have had contact with at KS are the kindest people I've met. I have worked for companies that the lines are calculated by dividing by 60, by 70, by 65, with spaces, without spaces. It's all over the board. Most of the time, they do the line counting themselves, yes, but I like doing my own calculating because then I have something to verify against, whereas when the companies do it themselves, how do I double check it?? I'd much rather do it this way.
Does Keystrokes give line raises. If so, when and how much.
Very interested
I am on a Lanier by the line rad account with Keystrokes. sm
I love the account and using a Lanier, even though I know it is old-fashioned. I also have an account with them that is by the line but uses a wav pedal, and even though I am on that account less often, it has a lot of work.
am on a Lanier by the line rad account with Keystrokes. sm
really? by the line?? is it more than 6.5? i may have to apply with them
Thanks for the info! Do you *feel* like you make more with a gross line v. character line? (nm)
Oh, they make money off us. Line rate is 17 cents a gross line.nm
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Could someone help me with the figuring out of gross line versus character line? sm
I have generally been paid by character line, 65-character line. Now, I have had job opportunities offering to pay gross line but it like 3 cents cheaper than what I am being paid now. A few places I have read that gross line is MUCH better, but is it much better if the pay is so much lower? Please explain how it works or equals out. This position has offered me 6 cents per gross line - what would that equal out to in character lines? Thanks...so confused...
Spaces are not taken into account with gross lines....a line is a line...sm
if there seven words on a line.
or two
one
or a full line of typing...all of the companies that I have worked for define a gross line as 1 inch margins, 12 pt courier font....does not matter what we type in margins or font.....we convert all reports to the 1 inch margins and courier 12 font and then count the lines. not the blank spaces between the lines.
Hope this helps.
I left MQ for TT. The base line rate was less at TT, but overall I make more per line with the
shift differential (I work second shift) and the incentive plan (I have never once failed to make at least an extra half cent per line on incentives - most of the time a penny). I was scared to death to make that move, as I had been with MQ since back in the Transcriptions Limited days. I have to say, though, that it was the best career move I have ever made and I have never, not once, regretted it.
I hope that was of some help.
15 years ago, I charged .22 per line to big accounts. Now I have been forced down to .13 per line.
This is in part due to offshore companies, in part due to newbies coming in and underbidding to get an account but not being able to service it and then the account expecting everyone else to meet that price. The market is being driven down by many forces, and it is not pretty. I used to pay .14 per line (gross line too) and now pay my subs 0.08. It is not something I wanted to do, but something that was necessary. With only 15 MTs, I feel the squeeze more than some of the big companies out there, but cannot grow and keep up the same standards.
Healthcare in general is not the money-maker it once was, and transcription has taken a hard hit over the years.
Line counts - the lower the line count requirements
the harder the account and problems with trying to get production off the platform the company uses.
I see they pay on a VBC line. Isn't that a huge paycut from a 65-char. line with spaces? nm
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Actually, SBC does allow it. I had my line changed to a business line and talked with a sm
supervisor who okayed it. As long as I am listening to voice files, and not one computer talking to another, faxing, etc., it is within their guidelines. :-)
Ask what is a line. I was offered 6 clp for a 42 black character line sm
that seemed to strange, but really it was not so bad. Came out pretty close to a 65 k/s line at 8.5 to 9.
Phoenix MedCom, Inc. has lots of Lanier accts!
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Last year, they had accts w/their own software and some with ExText.
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