When the company line count is fair - it is easy nm
Posted By: GeorgiaMT on 2008-01-07
In Reply to: if you type 1500 lines plus per shift - Dang! No wonder you all are making money -
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Is it easy to get your required line count?
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EASY to make line count!
My experience was the opposite. I routinely did 1600-2000 lines a day, WAY over minimum of about 1200 lines a day. I can't make that now in my current job, but at Spheris it was easy. It does depend on the accounts you're assigned, though, so I don't doubt that it COULD be hard to make line count at Spheris. Just depends.
Yes, if gross line count and easy dictator
to start with.
ChartScript easy to learn/use/good line count?
Please post any experiences you have had with this platform. Also,does Diskriter provide good insurance and have plenty of work?
Is it easy to get required line counts?
Pay is good, platform very easy. Got line count within days. (sm)
The people you work with/for are extremely helpful. There is an incentive plan which they will explain to you during interview process. No 401 match - that is a bummer. First year PTO only a few days, but picks up the next year.
Apply and have the recruiter go over it all with you. It is well worth the time.
Good luck.
Then company should set line count per day with incentives for above that. If get line count done
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NEVER believe the company line. Do line count for yourself.
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Don't rely on company line count.
My company said I was getting paid for spaces, headers, footer and templates. They also have their own line counter that they can go by but MT/Editors cannot access. I did a line count on my own using Word count and my numbers and theirs were way off. After much prodding found out I was only getting paid for what was in the body of the text. Now I am working on getting paid for the corrected line counts, which is taking forever. Don't believe anything other than what your own eyes tell ya.
Went from hospital to company using DQS, line count has definitely went down, don't get paid for
demographics even if we have to enter them in. I've put a lot more abbrev in my Expander since switching over to DQS to help compensate.
You know, I never actually counted my lines myself, I just always figured my company's line count
Boy was I wrong! I just went through and totaled all of my lines, then compared them to the line counter, and guess what! It's wrong! Can you guess who I work for? SOFTSCRIPT!!! 
Just checked line count for another GREAT Extext company
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When a company tells you you'll tripple your line count
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WMX - line count. Was working along and noted line count accumulation (sm)
signed off the report I was typing. Those lines didn't add immediately, but sometimes they do that. What concerns me is that when I signed that job off and the next one came up, not only were the other lines not added in but they were LESS than they were before I signed off previous job.
I thought I noticed this happening the other day, but figured I just wasn't paying attention. Today I definitely noticed it. For some reason it changed it's mind and took 8 lines off my line count. What the heck?
Am not really ecstatic with the way things are going anyway and then this confuses me.
Please, someone have a realistic explanation so I don't feel paranoid and cheated here.
Anyone know of a company, easy clinic work, easy Word format, dependable pay? Help!
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By the line is always the most fair...sm
To many variables, and if there is any cherry pickin going on, you are just out of luck... my experience if you are being paid this way, normally is because it is to their beneift, not the MT's benefit.
There is no fair QA line rate. Get out
of the biz. Let the people who don't know what they are doing take the line rates and make the companies go out of business. That's what they deserve.
They pay what I would consider a very fair line rate
but have no idea what their report rate was before.
fair starting line rate
I'm considering going to work for a company paying by the line rate. What is a good/fair begining line count rate for relative newbie (<1 yr)?
Can someone please tell me what is a fair rate per line for speech rec editing?
Thanks in advance!
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.
which companies pay fair line rate with designated accounts? nm
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Good sound quality, fair line counting, pay always on time.
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Is it easy to get high line counts? sm
Do you find it easier, same, harder than other companies you've been with to produce high line counts?
What type of Expander software to they use?
Do you have to do a lot of looking up demographics or does everything prefill?
TIA
Transolutions..a fair and good company..sm
I no longer work for this company as I did not like the platform (MedType)...however, if you want an honest and fair company and can deal with the platform, these people are great. I just got a birthday card from them 3 weeks after quitting. That is going far beyond the expected in my opinion. The people on their staff are wonderful to work with and if I could handle DOS-based platforms, I might consider going back to them...just not my cup of tea.
Also love ExText even though the line counts can be low. Easy to use! nm
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It's the ExText software. Easy to use. Has it's own expander, if you want, and line counting b
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Is it easy to get line counts on Precyse radiology accounts?? sm
anyone using dial up with radiology accts, are you getting good line counts? i've done a search on archives and reading info about the company. anyone else radiology-wise care to share their experience?
thanks!
Amphion - I highly recommend this professional, fair company
Best of luck!
Could anyone recommend a company that is fair and doesn't show favoritism?
thank you in advance
I got 100% on the phone interview, and thought the on-line test was easy, but they still didn't h
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LIne count
I have had the same accounts for up to 15 years. On my surgeons with even charging 12 cents a line I can often make $50 to $60 an hour with their consults. I think it is fair. They pay within 48 hours, never a bounced check, got $500 Christmas bonus. I can do them in my sleep. They never question my line counts. It is 60 characters to a line and gross lines, not character count. On a consult for breast cancer, that is 3 to 4 pages, probably type 50 lines as the physical is so standard. If I charged more I would feel like I was ripping them off. I make a decent living and so pass it onto them. I gross over 11,000 lines per month with them and work 5 to 6 hours per week. They like the smaller amount per line. My other is a clinic that I have a lot of auto corrects set up and still make $35 an hour and so why charge them an arm and leg when I am making decent money. My sub's make close to $25 an hour as they aren't quite as fast as I am and don't use as many quick corrects but at 8 to 9 cents they average 250 to 350 (psych reports) per hour. So we are all happy. Half way through the year I myself have made $26,500. And that is with a slow June.
line count
I have always understood that gross line pay is better than character counted. This could be false, however, depending on font used and size of font, as well as the format of the report. Sorry, don't know info specific to Meditech's system, but have read "To convert Gross Lines to Net Lines multiply Gross Lines by .70." This obviously reduces gross lines by 30% to a net line count, but it does not make sense that this formula would be accurate all the time considering all the variables involved (those mentioned above as well as the fact that character counted net lines are not a standard 65, and could be whatever number the client has agreed to pay on).
line count
How can you get an exact count by Word? Even the different Word programs vary.
My line count
Some say that if you are not a high producer, you may actually do well with VR? How true is that? Due to the summer, my line count is only in the 6 or 7000 range per pay period. However, in the beginning of Sept, the kids will go back to school and I will start working full time. Given that there is full time work available to me, could I stand to actually make more money doing VR?
MQ line count
I've been on DQS for way over a year. My line count has never improved and I am one the same account every day. Join the class action and hopefully we will get our money eventually.
OSi line count - sm
When I started there it was 198 lph...they have lowered it since I left. And why are they allowed to post jobs here? They outsource overseas!!! What happened to MTSTARS policy of not posting jobs from outsourcing companies?
Line Count
Sharon, I've been with TT for over a year and have never had a line count problem (and know it is correct because I know what I can transcribe per hour/day, and have been doing it consistently for years before coming to TT and since being with TT). Are you new at TT? If you are having a problem you should email Debbie about it, as she will be able to answer any questions you may have.
Line Count
This may not be much help but I've worked for 2 years for TT and never had a problem. Guess before TT I'd worked on just about every platform there is and been paid every way anyone could think of to pay; hourly, by the line, by the minute, per word, per 1000 words, by the page and maybe some others I've forgotten. Thus, I know what I produce forward and backward, don't need to check it, I KNOW when it's right and I'd KNOW if it was wrong. Once before TT I was complaining to my husband that I absolutely was NOT making ANY money despite the fact that I was working 8 hours a day and that certainly my lines were not being recorded accurately. Being the helpful person that he is, he suggested that I keep a log for a week of every minute I spent typing and every minute I was out of the chair and then take my log to administration. To my horror, at the end of the first day, I found I had spent EXACTLY 2.5 hours of the 8 hours I was signed on actually working. No wonder I wasn't making any money. (Not implying at all that this is the problem with your line count but it certainly was MY problem). Thereafter I parked my butt in the chair and it was amazing how my line count got accurate. 
Line Count
I currently work for an oncologist and I do not get paid by the line, but rather a straight salary every month. Can some one tell me about how much typing is involved if expected to type 1800 lines per day??
Thanks
Tammie
Line Count
Thank you very much for the information
LINE COUNT
NOPE, OSi
And how about the line count that you
see not really being the 1 that you get?
yes that is right line count
transtech only pays for lines typed excluding header, signature, and timestamps. I have compared the line count from MS word highlighting only what counts and it is equal to Dictaphone line counts.
dqs line count
My line count went way down, but if it is because of way lines or characters are counted then why do line counts seem to check out in word? I simply cannot figure out the problem, but hate DQS.
Line count for MDI-MD
You tell them how many lines you will do on a given day. They just expect you to do what you say you will.
line count
what is the average daily line count on a 65 and 72 character line? Thanks
Line count
No, not eMTS- this was ChartScript with another company. I do not know the count with eMTS but would like to know what some MTs think who work for them.
Then you need to get your line count up
Then you need to be doing more than 1000 to 1500 lines per day. So work on getting you line count up. If you want to make the big bucks, gotta put in the time and effort. Or like you say get your own accounts but it takes time, dedication and hard work to have your own accounts like the poster below says. Good and bad to both but bottom line is get your line count up -- if you can. If you can't you need to go somewhere else where you can.
Line count
Just wondering if any of you currently working there find it difficult to make the daily line count? I'm looking at applying. Thank you!
I use my own line count
I figure my own line count, I am an IC. I use gross line count now, so the 65-character line count is a new thing for me. I know they divide the characters by total lines and just wanted to make sure that was the correct procedure to figure -
thanks for the help too!!!
line count
Any problem getting enough lines on their systems and are they accurate?
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