and the line counter is a cheat
Posted By: Gina on 2005-10-20
In Reply to: hate MEDSCRIBE - borgontia
I swear their line counter is rigged.
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Why wouldn't they cheat the line counts? Q got away with it...
only a slap on the wrist. I bet all transcription services are cheating the lines!
Softscript line counter
Does anyone know what platform they use or if they use a platform. How do they count lines. Newbie and confused. Thank you.
Precyse's line counter sux
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Does anyone on here use Sylcount line counter and can you tell me how you like it. nm
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OSI Line Counter - Must Vent!!
I know this is probably petty, but does anyone else notice the line counter at OSi goes down every single weekend?? Do they disable it to keep us from knowing how much we've typed, afraid we might not work as much?? This is so irritating. I like to keep track of how much I've done and this is very frustarting. I hate just sitting here typing in the dark.
I never liked them having an external line counter..sm
when I worked for them. I thought it was quite odd. I like to know what I am typing as I finish each report, etc.
Softscript line counter, where did the posts go
regarding this. We, previous and PAST, employees have a right to tell which companies rip MTs off and they are the worst. Line counts change day to day.
New software? Hope its a new line counter
cause theirs is way off.
Can ayone tell me how the line counter work in MS Word please. nm
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It seems they are dodging questions about the supposed new line counter they've been
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I agree. The line counter is a pain, but I've checked lots of reports against MS Word
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They lie, cheat, and steal...
AND DOCQMANAGE THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT TO CHEAT THE TRANSCRIPTIONISTS!!
I hope it all comes out in the open soon!
DQS doesn't cheat on lines (sm)
which you can easily verify by cut/pasting your report into Word or that MedPen word counting program (freeware) or something. DQS just doesn't pay for demographics, dates of admission/discharge, referring physician names, courtesy copies, and all the other stuff you're used to, even if you have to enter the data by hand, but who does anymore?
I know of 2 other companies that use DQS, both somewhere in the south. Accuscribe originally tested the program for the software company that came up with it, but many people have told me they don't pay for spaces and are otherwise "difficult." Dunno, never worked for them. Dictation Services Group is a very nice company, now part of VoiceWorks. www.dsg-inc.net. I did 1500 lines my second day with that company, only left because I had too many private accounts to do to give them enough time.
Instant Text's newest revision automatically imports DQS AutoCorrect glossaries!
And if you produce an odd # of lines do they cheat
you out of that 0.5 cents or do they round it up and give you a bonus of 0.5 cents?
Yes, you are correct. They cheat you on spaces. Stay away!! sm
They say they pay you for spaces, but in actuality they cut the number of spaces in half and only pay you for half of the spaces. I figured their little dishonest business out and left without a word to anyone and let them figure out why I was no longer working. I never confronted them. Had no desire to when they were flat out dishonest, but my calculations were 100% on the money with total spaces cut in half for 2 weeks straight line count. Sad because other than that I liked the company and work, just couldn't get line count up and lead me to be suspicious enough to figure out why.
I don't use my own counter
because the counts don't seem far off to me (that's why I asked how far off)... If you are talking a smallish amount you should foget about it IMHO because at least TT PAYS ON TIME and is very receptive to feedback.
Remember not all companies use the same counting formulas...
Pay is on time but they use a Word counter. sm
I agree with the OP that it is not great great pay. The accounts are not too great either. The better work is cherry-picked by the owner, and other good work given to the pets. They also pester you nonstop to work all 7 days of the week.
A counter this is quicker to access, but I've never seen anything
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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.
Means a line is a line is a line, even if it only has one word on the line
it is considered a line.
"a line is a line" means gross line.
Gross line is a line, no matter how long or short.
Yes to old reports! Their ExText has all the regular functions except line counts are done on line
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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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Keystrokes has very few accts on line using ExText. Most use Cphones/2nd line. Lots of Rad
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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.
Line By Line...... any info on this company?
Thanks!
Any info on Line By Line Transciprion?? nt
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Any info on Line By Line Transcription please???nt
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A gross line is any line that has a character on it, so even if
a line just has one character on it, it is considered a line. If you are getting 6 cpl per gross that is approximately equal to 8 cpl based on 65 characters. Sometimes the font on a gross line can make it be less than that though.
NEVER believe the company line. Do line count for yourself.
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Line by Line Transcription....anyone have any info?
Thanks!!!
I don't have a second phone line ... cable modem for the internet, regular line for my C-phone.
If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.
And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert. Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling. :-)
Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)
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.
Line by Line out of Texas. NM
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QA pay is 0.015 per line; yes, 1-1/2 pennies per line. No thanks. nm
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They pay per net line not per gross line..sm
I work on Escription and they pay net line, all characters counted on entire document and divided by 65 to get one line count.
Bottom line: What does it pay per line?
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A gross line is not based on characters. A gross line is
anything on the line constitutes a line, so if you only have 1 word on a line it is still counted as a line. A gross line at 8 cpl roughly translates to 10 cpl/65 character.
Then company should set line count per day with incentives for above that. If get line count done
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is the VR line rate 60% of the regular typing line rate?
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Is the ASR line rate 1/2 of transcription line rate? sm
Reason I ask is that I assume if they have ASR now that eventually all will be ASR except of course for the awful dictators as this seems to be the norm.
HOW MUCH A LINE?
Just curious.
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