Looking for a co. that does not use VR/editing, rather straight transcription
Posted By: Which companies DO NOT use VR/editing on 2008-05-08
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Is there is such a company? Must pay on time. Don't need insurance.
Would consider clinic work after 15 years of acute care experience.
Don't like my pay cut in half -- cannot make up for $$$$. DQS was the only VR platform that was good to me $$$ wise.
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I should also mention that I do straight transcription, not editing.
I have never run out of work.
Transcend pays more. There is editing and straight transcription. Let's just say..they pay more
than 9 cpl, double of what people will be making at RC Transcription.
It sure is! Isn't it about what straight editing gets?
editors do the same thing as ASR, it's all editing in my book, and it's all a rip, except don't editors get only all the worst stuff? About the only thing good I can say about it is it does seem to help on some of the ESLs who qualify for it.
4 cpl editing/8.4-10 straight typing.
I work for DeVenture and Lee Perfect.
It's editing AND straight typing. nm
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believe it is 8 cpl for straight typing and 4 cpl for editing, at least that is what their ad says.
Rad pay by report - Editing vs straight pay - sm
Radiology MTs, what is a decent rate for pay by report? I'm thinking of going with a service that uses Powerscribe and has editing of VR as well as straight transcription. Someone else mentioned 75 cents for a transcribed report and 55 cents for edited report, but I'd like some perspective from other rad MTs as to whether this is a fair wage. I come from a background of paid by the line only previously so I'm not sure how to compare. Thanks in Advance!
Is this for editing VR or straight typing? Thanks again. nm
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Supposedly, editing would be faster than straight typing
and the VR would be ONLY for those doing editing. Not everyone will be doing editing (at Transcend).
11,000 per week editing lines, 5,500 straight typed.
Don't know how much it is for husband and kids. $70 a week for me and two kids.
What's more productive for you, ExText editing or straight typing?
Not sure I'm gonna like this editing job 
Straight Transcription vs VR
If anyone has gone from straight transcription to voice recognition, what was the expected increase in LPH, 50%, 75%, 100%? And how realistic was expectation?
Straight Transcription/VR
EditScript
Does KS do ASR or is everything straight transcription?
I absolutely hate ASR, just can't seem to make as much editing as transcribing.
As far as I know they do straight transcription. I don't know
what shifts are available, you'll have to ask them about that.
When you have to go from straight transcription...sm
to a VR account it is a big deal. I have worked on my second choice and I really am not thrilled with it. The only reason I have stayed with TT was because of TO, as I really, really liked that account and now they are gone. I am glad you are happy with your alternatives, but some of us are not.
STRAIGHT TRANSCRIPTION
Looking for a company with straight transcription. Cannot make money with ASR. Any suggestions?
MDI-MD is straight transcription....n/m
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straight transcription
JLG. The only problem is that they do not have direct deposit right now. Other than that, great company to work for.
OSI - do they have just straight transcription? see msg
How are the accounts/dictators? I'm thinking of testing but will not do SR/VR - just looking for part time multispecialty clinic work to fill some gaps. Any info is appreciated. Thanks!
Straight transcription here...
... and I much prefer it that way. I have never even been asked if I want to learn speech-wreck. I've been at this 37 years, I'm very good at it (if I do say so myself) and I'm fast. It ain't broke so nobody better try to fix it.... :)
What companies have straight transcription
What companies are offering only straight transcription jobs? A list of these would truly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
ASP is their own platform they use for straight transcription.
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I prefer Dictaphone doing straight transcription. sm
When I worked on eScription I liked the platform but doing VR made me insane correcting so many little things like he to she, not to mention I made about $200 less a month. But, that's just me.
I am very happy at Axolotl doing straight transcription. SM
I have found them to be an excellent company. Yes, QA is tough - and some people have said that the supervisor is rude. However, I have had no problems with QA (they do stick right the account specs, though), and no problems with the supervisor or manager. In fact, they have been more than gracious to me. Now, I don't really know if they are hiring but maybe as there has been a TON of work lately. Please email me if you want to ask more questions about them.
Do you mean only SR people terminated, straight transcription ok? (Sm)
Surely they would give editors a chance to change to straight typing. Maybe I am misunderstanding this.
Rates for transcription and editing.
Speech recognition. Here are some rates. This is not a guarantee, just what I know first-hand, and what I've been told from others as well. It's just an average.
Cents per Line.
Sten-Tel - transcribe - 7.5, edit - 3
MDI - transcribe 8-8.5, edit 4-4.5
QT Medical - transcribe 8, edit 4
Focus - transcribe 7.5, edit 3
Editing versus transcription
I do VRE and I love it. I have done it for a couple of different companies, and how much you make will all depend on the work and how much patient info you have to enter. I think 3.75cpl is pretty low though.
The statistics are that only 7% of transcription is SR editing. Think about all the sm
individual doctor offices, small hospitals and clinics. I even was told that it is too expensive for large hospitals because they need a license for each doctor and they have to train it. When you have a teaching hospital, it can mean 4000 licenses. Not worth the cost.
It's not as prevalant as it seems to be. It is just talked about often now.
Hated VR. Made less money that straight transcription..sm
I was extremely boring and mindless work. People say they doubled their production/lines with VR. That is true but remember if you make 0.08 straight typing and 0.04 doing VR, you are making the same amount of money. I made about 150 bucks less a month because the dictators were horrible and I had to end up typing almost all the reports over. I will never do it again.
I despise it. You will never ever make as much money as on straight transcription.
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Is that 1600 lines a day in editing or transcription?
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Voice will reduce transcription and increase editing
along with lowering pay across the board. There is a company I left after a short period of time who bought into Dragon's sales pitch. It was a medical management company who thought they could make a quick buck moving into MT. They bought the sales pitch without understanding the whole picture.
They hire at $8 an hour, have great benefits and expect you to kill yourself for that $8 an hour. IF you edit more than 16,000 lines a day for each pay period (2 weeks), then you pay bumps up to $10/hr. But if the average for any pay period is less than 16,000 lines per day, you get stuck with your $8 and are told if you don't like it leave. Well, I did. The day after I left they announced they were sending the editing to India. Ain't that a kicker? Their reason? To get the MTs in India to train Dragon so the American MTs can make their 16,000 lpd goals and have happier employees
Things that make you go hummm.
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$0.05 per line for editing, 0.065 for transcription IS 3rd world wages.
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I think your getting it all wrong.. She is probably doing VR editing..not the same as QA editing..
Does make a difference as you are not correcting someone's else work.. just VR to make sure the sentences make sense, right punctuation etc..If you have good English skills, it is not that difficult but this 1.5 cpl is a joke.
Let me get this straight
I would guess this relates to the post about changing jobs on people without notice. Interesting to me that Heartland had a pitiful reputation here and they at least gave people some notice. I don't think I will be calling Medware. I can't afford for a company to take my job away in less than a week.
Ha! S/B look them straight in the EYE when getting
lied to. I am a good judge of people face-to-face, but I really feel the lying recruiters or HR dept or whomever get away with it a lot easier cause we are not face-to-face. Might make it less painful for them to live with themselves as well. They don't have to see the hurt and horror they cause in our lives. Mind you - I can handle any and all ESLs, etc, and any work type, but its the misrepresentation that burns me. Tell me upfront the garbage I'll be transcribing, and then show me that garbage during my early days - don't lie and deceive me.
Let me see if I got this straight --
1. The recruiter hired you and knew that you hadn't done acute care in a while.
2. The recruiter told you that the account manager would be made aware of this and take the time to train you on acute care.
3. The account manager then rips you a new one and basically fires you.
4. Now, the same recruiter wants you to call this account manager and explain it to her.
Shouldn't the recruiter have done #4 herself and had the account manager call you to apologize? Sorry, but I gotta say forget this company. Take the 4-hour loss on the training as a lesson learned and move on.
I get 6.5 for SR and 10 for straight, but that is not what
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GETTING IT STRAIGHT
I finally got the straight scoop on this. My friend said that the recruiter interviewed her initially, followed a few days later, after testing, by a supervisor. She said that both of them were very formal and rather abrupt, not very personable. My friend asked the second caller/supervisor about the situation with the supervisor with the bad behavior causing MTs to quit, which was posted a week or so ago here at mtstars; apparently, this supervisor denied knowing anything about that. However, my friend said that it seemed to her that the supervisor on the phone call was likely the very one that had caused the trouble. My friend declined the position.
No, 4 for VR and 8 for straight but
the biggest part of my work now is VR. I love it myself, just do not want to work fulltime.
Get it straight.
Please be careful when you are in the interview.
Be prepared to lose your job if you are identified and your picture is taken. Those who work at the Q must remember Linda Perdue. Whistle blowers generally do not fare well and this is something you have to deal with before you do the interview. While this is information that the public needs and deserves to know you are placing yourself in harm's way job wise. Write the body of your piece yourself and tell the reporter that you want to see her final copy before it goes to print. Do not sign anything to hold them harmless. Be as generic as you can be .. national companies do not want negative publicity .. remember Brokovitch .. be smart and listen to every word they say to you carefully before you answer and ask them to repeat so that you know what is going on. Maybe you can tape the interview. Good luck to you.
Let me get this straight...
Because the OP randomly, out of the blue, posted for we 'TT cheerleaders' to LEAVE THIS BOARD AND GO WHERE WE BELONGED, that wasn't antagonistic and bullying, in your esteemed opinion? Taking it upon herself to instruct other posters to go elsewhere because we have a different opinion than that which SHE holds? OMG, lololololol!!!
Talk about hilarious...No wonder people like you are so resistive to learning anything new. You like to set your own rules as you go along and obviously do not play well with others.
As other posters below have said, if you're going to bully other posters around who disagree with you by calling them liars or accusing them of being management in disguise, and attempt to trash-talk TT for moving forward with VR, then good riddance to the lot of you.
But no other poster is going to tell ME to go somewhere else because I disagree with her. I don't believe anyone died and left her in charge. Those of you whining may outnumber those of us supporting TT, but that does NOT mean you are the ones in charge. That is the job of the MTStars Moderator, not some random siveling poster.
Let me get this straight. You are an MT SM
experienced with this account and you are on probation for 3 months? You help train the other MTs, give samples, etc., and you are on probation? Should be the other way around.
It seems even with straight
you are having your problems with the brain fog.
So let me get this straight...sm
It is my understanding that we get to keep...free and clear...our current computer that Amphion provided us in the beginning. Do we have to return the foot pedal? Are they going to remove the virus protection we currently have on our computers and we must provide our own? The email was kinda confusing...Thanks!
This is straight MT sm
and yes, she is on a power trip. She is new and didn't read any of the instructions given to her.
let me see if I have got this straight..s/m
So anyone who has anything positive to say is going to be management, or a company hack, as you called it?
I really don't think that is fair at all.
I personally have had a very positive experience with Transcend since the merger with my prior employer from earlier this year. Yes I was a little concerned about the outsourcing thing, but I have resigned myself to that it is a fact of life in this field anymore, and as long as companies think that they can get away with it cheaper, than that is just the way things are going to be.
So am I a company hack then, because I am not going to bash the company? No. I am an MT just like the rest of you, and have been in this field for quite a few years.
I am a bit younger than the median age for the industry, but I came into MT when I couldn't do anything else due to physical limitations and a desire to work in the medical field.
I make enough money (even with some VR work) to support two children and 2 adults on just my MT income.
I understand that not everyone will have the same experience with a company, but I do not think it is fair to bash someone or insist they must be lying because their experience was different then yours, or you don't agree with what they are saying.
And as to outsourcing to India being cheaper, I used to work for a local MTSO that was on the small side, maybe 10 MTs. They used to send some work to India when they would get more in a day than we could get finished, and I can tell you without a doubt that it cost them more to send the work overseas than it did for it to be done domestic. For the domestic MTs, there was no QA per se, but if we had a problem, we could have one of the other MTs listen, or the owner of the company would listen and see if she could fill in the blank.
The work sent overseas had to be listened to verbatim, and they had to pay someone to do that. It would on average, cost them almost 4 cents a line more to have work done overseas.
Okay coming down off of my soapbox now,
Let me get this straight...
If you were making 7.5-8, you will now be making 5.6 cpl or less for straight typing? Is this correct? If so, I am very sorry. I just can't imagine them making that drastic of a cut. Terrible.
Get your facts straight.
Do you know how many times I went to my company and sent letters, and emails? I mean I went all the way to the TOP.. you know how many responses i got...or offers to call and discuss with the supervisors.. ZIP--NADA...and by the way, these companies should value their MTs... who do you think is doing the bulk of the work... QA and MTs while the others travel around, buy new cars, boast how they have a 6-million dollar business. YES MA'AM. An owner told he has a 6-million dollar business. Hows does that grab ya?
Get your facts straight. sm
The pay cuts were a business decision not financial problems. I make more here than I ever made anywhere else. Checks bounce? I was one of the 8 and received the letter from the bank, my fees paid, etc. Then they changed banks and there have been no problems. Lack of work? Never. Lack of pay? Never. Maybe you weren't good enough.
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