Where do you get that Scribe does not give you a line count??

• phone interview with transportal tomorrow.... sm - Debbie
  • it went okay..... sm - phone interview
  • Scribe is the platform and it is slooow - Its hard to get 1200 line a day on it
    • transportal is a great company - NDMT
    • Wow! Way different experience - TransportalMT
    • Where do you get that Scribe does not give you a line count?? - lls
      • I had been with them several months - and no line count
        • And did those lines equal the same? Once the file is released sm - lls
        • Sour grapes? - TransportalMT
    • You tell 'em sista... - re: transportal
  • I heard - re: transportal
    • TransPortal - joan
      • It's not rumor... - re: transportal
    • I started the application process, but when they - wannie
      • If you put in an application at Wal-Mart does it not ask for your SS#? sm - lls
  • 1200?? Is that in 8 hours? sm - Ewww
    • And what company would that be? The big companies - sm
    • Disregard the above poster because there are loads - Victoria
      • I know that feeling. The account I do now is Meditech - wannie
    • what program do you use? nm - wannie

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What are your line counts with the Scribe platform?  I'm only getting half of what I did with DocQscribe.

we work.  We do not get paid for everything that control i would show.  It has recently been fixed so that we can use control i, but the line shown there is not what we will get paid for.  We have to go to ichart to get our *true* line count.  Ichart often is very slow and/or down !  There is a big difference in the control i line count and what we get paid for.  We also have no way to see the reports that we have done with the exact line count for that report, nor any report that shows us the job numbers we transcribed EVER!  We are even blocked from the function that shows the prior report that we did. Control i does absolutely no good if it is not a correct line count (paycheck-wise).  The only thing that I see good out of it with Transtech is that it does show the number of reports that I have transcribed so that I can compare it with my handwritten tablet of jobs, but it does not show each and every report number or line count for each report. The only way we could that is to look at Ichart at the end of each job which is very time consuming since it is so very SLOW !  But still no job numbers. 

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. 

I have also had issues with line counts at Med-Scribe.  Their pay has been accurate & on-time, but they pay by hard line and do not pay spaces.  It is so hard to make a decent line count even with easy work that sometimes I wonder if they even pay for the spaces in between words and sentences!

Otherwise they are a very good company to work for.  The people are very nice, they use MSN messenger for easy communication, and the platform is Word-based.  Just a heads up, they do have a Validation system that can be a pain in the neck when you are trying to transmit reports though.

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. 

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

see not really being the 1 that you get? 

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.   

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!!!

Thanks but I'm really not awesome.  The main trick is to sit down in the chair, buckle up and WORK.  Reminds me of one of my stories (everything reminds me of a story in MT).HAHA:  Once I changed jobs...ddi, inc. actually...and I was telling my husband I was about to go job hunting again and I was fixin' to call them up and give them what for because I had never worked at a job where I absolutely could not get a line count.  Being the Wise One that he is, he suggested that I write down every time I got up and make a log so I could use this to tell them how hard I was working for how little money.  I was hoping he would forget about suggesting that but nooooooo....when he came home from work he just had to ask me how my day had gone.  To my shame I had to fess up that while I was signed in to work 10 hours out of that day, I actually had only 2 hours of actual working time!!!!!  I corrected that little problem and poof....my line count soared.  Just as an aside I ended up working 7 years for ddi (until they sold out to the big M) and I made great money and not bragging, but I'm talking $50,000+.

BTW my production won't be so good today....let's see...I've had several long phone conversations, cleaned house, done a couple loads of laundry, taken care of my surgically impaired husband, fed the livestock, piddled around on the MT boards.......and typed.  BUT I've been signed on to work all that time since 7:15 a.m. and my line count is right around 700 anyhow....good enough for P/T I reckon but I agreed to 4 hours a day and I'll make up the lost time that I spent doing other stuff besides being buckled up in the chair.

I don't do 3000 lines consistently...matter-of-fact...I do it seldom because I am P/T.  The only reason I do it is when the account is out of TAT and I try to be a good employee and help any way I can....including working weekends because most people don't want to work weekends and I don't care....otherwise, the accounts go somewhere else and there you go....then we all have something to complain about.... like no work at all.  My point is, I CAN do 3000 lines and so too can anyone else, it's really no great feat.  I'm fortunate that I'm at the point in life that I do MT because I want to....it actually cost me a good bit in taxes this year too, so financially I'd probably have been better off not working.

The first suggestion I would make toward increasing the line count is see above.....check how you're working...it may surprise you.  Second no matter that it's easy to make corrections on the computer, it wasn't so easy to make corrections on a manual typewriter with 7 carbon copies, so work to improve the accuracy of your typing.  May not seem like much but every time you have to correct something either by backspacing or with spellcheck, you're using a second or two and those seconds add up to minutes.  Then, of course, make full use of the ShortHand program......this from the person who was the last one dragged screaming and kicking to learn to use the computer.

Happy typing!

I'm a regular reader, seldom post.  This discussion seems to go on and on and keeps popping up.  I'm in a  mood this morning so here's what I have to say about that.

A little background.....I'm an old MT;  ya know, social security queen, so I work P/T.  I've worked for so many companies I can't remember all of 'em and I've been MTing so long I forget how long.  I've been paid by the character, by the line, by the page, by the 1000 words and maybe some more ways I have forgotten.

The above being said, it is impossible to cheat me on a line count.  I know pretty much what I've typed before I check my line count.  When I check the line count if it is significantly off, I have a problem with that.  That happened once with TT when I started working on a new account, which was the ichart thing.  I immediately said, HEY??!!!!??? and was told about the problem with Dictaphone.  Problem fixed, problem solved.  No problem.  And, not bragging, but I'm one of those folks who has and can pop out 3000 lines in a day; that is an 8 hour (or more likely 6 hours working time) day.

Now.  Is TT perfect?  Nope.  My only real complaint is many times emails go unanswered but hey, I'm a smart cookie and if I don't get an answer....well, I just figure out what to do and DO it.

As for the line counting........if I felt the line count was unfair and had to waste my valuable time re-counting with TT or any other company well...color me gone. 

My advice:  Get off this board and get on the TT platform...you'll make more spendable cash..... which is where I'm going right now.