radiology line versus report
Posted By: grannyMT on 2006-04-13
In Reply to: lines versus reports - Latrice
I think the answer is to ask your recruiter at the start about the account you will be on and hope she will be truthful. I was outsourced from a hosp. not long ago, offered a job with the company hospital was going with so already knew the docs and reports. These were very wordy docs and the new company was going to pay us by report. Didn't not take the job because I knew ahead of time the reports were much too long to be paid by report.
Would have taken the job if
only they had paid by line.
Asked up front next time about account and was told
reports were mostly short
and normal. I was lucky
enough to find truthful recruiter. Hope this helps.
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Line versus report
I do radiology for a large national and a small service. The large national pays per examination not report and the small service pays per line. If the large national were paying per line, I would make a lot more than I do now due to the fact that most of the reports I type for them are very long (some as long as 15 minutes!). If I were being paid per line, I would be happy to type these long winded reports, but I am not getting paid like that by them. The small service pays me per line and when I get a long report, instead of thinking, Oh no!, I am thinking :CA-CHING!! Every account is different but this has been my experience after 11 years. Good luck to you.
line versus report
I am getting paid by the report and have always gotten paid by the line. Maybe thats my problem. I make my quoata most days, but when we have a lot long reports back to back, I only get half of my quota and that's my big concern. Even with short reports, I usually type 1600 to 1850 lines per day and with the long reports, making only half my quota (64), I had 1240 lines and was just discouraged, as I only make 1.05 per report. 
Radiology by the line for one account and by the report sm
for another. I make more by the report though.
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.
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...
I have found that by report for Radiology
always gives you more money. I was getting 11 cpl. I asked to go by report and am getting $1.10 per report and make almost $50 more a week by report.
Radiology report rate
I live on the East Coast and have been getting paid anywhere from $1.50 to $2.00 per report and $2.00-2.50 per page all depending on what type of reports I am transcribing.
I will only work by the report for radiology and only if sm
I am paid for links and extra for specials. I type 120-200 reports a day for Keystrokes and make more money by far than when I worked for another service and when I worked for a hospital. But make sure that you are paid for links and make sure that the person who hires you and/or trains you is familiar with the account and can tell you what the average report count is. Go with a service, such as Keystrokes, that is known for radiology. There are a few out there but make sure that they have enough radiology accounts to keep you busy. There are slow periods just like with any speciality and a good service knows when they are and how to schedule for them. Do your homework. Not sure if KS is hiring but they have the most rad accounts based on what I researched two years ago prior to going with them. Good luck!
Radiology pays per report...
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MDI versus MedScribe versus SoftScript versus Transsolutions versus TransHealth. SM
I'm getting ready to start applying and these are the companies that I'm looking at. So give me the low-down. Good, bad, India?
Here are my criteria:
9 cpl or better
Does NOT send work to India
Good accounts with at least 50/50 of ESL versus American dictators
Consistent work flow - no downtime or time spent waiting for work
Upper management should be professional, positive, and encouraging.
Pay for lines WITH spaces.
Is there such a job out there or am I just dreaming? If there are other companies other than the ones I listed that would fit the bill, please feel free to let me know. I tested with TransHealth and I felt like I tanked. It was a hard test and I had to use the mouse to stop and start the dictation as it was online test and you couldn't download the voice files. So that made it a lot more difficult. One of the dictators was cutting himself off through the report and I had to leave some blanks. I'm very frustrated with this whole process of looking and testing. Are all the tests like that? Or are there companies that allow you download the test files and transcribe them using your pedal and software? Ugh! I am just so frustrated and discouraged.
Thanks for any helpf.
People Support Rapid Text versus Keystrokes for radiology
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Radiology pay question..What's a good rate per report for
Radiology reports?? $1.20?? Am considering job offer.
Radiology pays per report or lines depending on
account. Per report is less than other companies out there, but line pay was about average.
Radiology job on MTJobs paying 75 cents per report...
Will we be reduced to pennies? There is no way you can make a living at 75 cents per report.
Hmm..If this is the radiology account, I thought they were paying on a per-report basis..sm
I worked for them for a little over a week and we were being paid per report. Must be a different account they were recenting hiring for or either they changed the pay structure.
At any rate, my experience was less than grand as well.
page pay versus per line pay
Does anyone know which is better to get paid by the line or the page? A local doctor just offered me a position but they pay by the page.
page versus line
Thanks for your resonse. The office told me they page $3.00 for first page and then $1.50 thereafter. It is an ortho doc so I am not sure how long their dictations are. I am assuming relatively short. I just want to make sure I am not leaving a .10cpl job for less. Thanks again.
Hourly versus line
Do not give up your hourly job. I had an hourly job until about three weeks ago and then hospital outsourced and now working per line. Everyone is running out of work and we have to wait on reports to trickle through. We are not making anything like we used to and will have to take a second job just to make up for loss. We are all depressed and upset and as usual they have overstaffed, but they said they would not, but they have. If you like your job stick it out. At least you will know what your paycheck will be.
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Line on each report..
I was not given that info. I guess that would vary though, wouldn't it? These are acute care reports. Thanks anyway.
pay is per line not per report..
once you get the hang of the docs, it's easy and good $$. Rad
pay is per line not per report..
once you get the hang of the docs, it's easy and good $$. Rad is
By Line or By Report - sm
After reading the posts below, I feel I need to add another opinion. I have done radiology both ways - by line and by report - and you can make money both ways, BUT, the platform that you type on is the deciding factor. If it is slow and not user friendly, forget it. If you have to add lots of demographics, forget it. If the spellchecker is awful, forget it. If you cannot use a text expander, forget it. You won't make good money either by line or report if you don't have a good, fast platform with lots of text Expander entries and a good spellchecker. Just my 2 cents.
Per line or per report
Opinions please. I recently had to move on from what I considered a great account (extremely well paying), because the transcription service lost the account and they are focusing on full-time position whereas I want PT. I am working with a company who pays 0.08 per line and was offered a job with another company who pays $1.20 per report. I usually work in the mornings about 5 hours, with Radiology. Does anyone have suggestions as to which is better? Thanks. I don't want to mention the companies because I want to keep it to the subject not start a company bashing. Thanks for your input.
Rad by report, HIM by line
Rad is paid on per report basis, whereas HIM is by the line. It depends on the account as well.
How does MDI pay for Rad, per report or by the line? nm
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High line rate versus possible lines per hour....
I'd like your opinions... I think it's more important to be able to produce a high line count than what your actual cents per line rate is. $0.10/line means nothing to me if I have to struggle to produce 200 lines per hour because of their format or platform. I'd rather make $0.07/line if I can count on producing 500 lines per hour.
Just something to think about when you interview with a potential employer who tries to dazzle you with a high line rate. I always ask about the average line counts and if they have auto-populated headings. We don't get paid for auto-populated headings (which can make a significant difference in our line counts), yet I'm sure the service bills the hospital for them.
I know Precyse used to pay 1 line for each report; don't know if
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I know a place where they doc you 1 line for every report sm
for headers and footers. IF is really 65 characters, fine, but mostly it is not. On a short 3-line report you end up paying the company for allowing you to type it.
some rad accounts pay per line/some per report.
I would call and ask them these type of company policy questions. They are nice people.
This place is for the hands-on side of day-to-day working for a company and those experiences encountered.
Most KS rad accounts are by the report with a few by the line. sm
By the minute in radiology would kill your pay as most are under a minute.
The only reason the one MedSurg account is by the minute is because their system has a lousy line counter that was not accurate, so KS managers told them that we could not use it and they figured out a way to do it by the minute. I have worked on that account in the past when they were in a bind but I do radiology 99% of the time.
Welcome to Keystrokes! They definitely have the best rad accounts out there!
Transhealth rad-paid by report or by line? sm
Anyone know? Thinking about applying.
Mt's are not allowed to see line count per report.
We have no way to see by job numbers after the report leaves our hands. We never see that job # again, not even on our paychecks, just says piece work.
I have a by-the-line rad report with them and have great counts! sm
I think that some accounts need to be by the line and some by the report. My backup account has short reports and by the report makes more sense by primary has a lot of rads who like their own voices so by the line is definitely better. I do a minimum of 1500 lines a day and I do not work over 8 hours as I have a disabled husband.
You get paid for the whole line count in the report.
Only on QA do some companies (GRRR) pay for just a certain amount of lines or what you actually type in the blanks.
VR is the same line count as text reports - and the whole report. Hope this helps you. You might want to check with your company to confirm though, lots of weird stuff going on with some of them;-)
$2.50/report own account - .17/line small MTSO
Their ads say .09 per line, 1.10 per report, which you could have saved yourself time by reading.
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Rad pays by line and by report, depending on the account
I have had rad accounts at Keystrokes pay both ways. I haven't heard of one that pays for reports over 2 minutes, but it all depends on the client. Your starting rate typically depends on your experience. Everyone at Keystrokes is super-nice, you will like working with them. Agree with poster who said get a backup account from day 1. Getting IDs for your account can take quite a bit of time, so be prepared to wait. Good luck.
Futurenet AQ not paid by report any more? Going to line rate.
sucks
ExText Users: Can we look up line counts per report?
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I received my line count report today. nm
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Radiology pay per line
I have always been paid per report on radiology. Is it easy to make line counts when paid per line on a standard radiology account and is the money still good? Thanks for your time!
Not radiology, but low per line -nm
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Documented line count each report, then compared to ichart end of day
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Phoenix MedCom shows you every report and every line counted,
with Word verification. They use 2 programs,internet for the newer programs, and a word-based program for those on Lanier and Dictaphone. But their programs show the verification of the job and line count no matter which platform you transcribe on. They have two rates...the internet platform pays for spaces, and the other is not with spaces but line rate is higher.
I am on a radiology account that is by the line because they have sm
a lot of newer radiologists who talk and talk and talk and talk. For the other account that I work for fill in, by the report is better but definitely by the line. They pay both ways. I make 0.10 per line for the account I am on. Hope this helps!
radiology audiotyping on line
Hi there, I am after a company that can help me out with employment- typing radiology reports online at home in my spare time. I have 13 years experience and I'm not sure where to start. ???? I live in Australia
10 cents/line for radiology at
MDI in Florida. if you have Meditech experience. If you don't, they will train you on it. Giving sign-on bonus through March. Diskriter pays by report, 1.05 -1.25. Just have to do your research. Its a pain.
What line rate does Spheris pay for radiology MTs?
TIA
Is 14 cents a line for radiology good?
I need some advice on this job offer as an IC for a hospital. They want to pay me 14 cents a line. I would like to know is that good?
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