Depends on each company, but usually incentive pay is only on the additional lines. Ask to be sure.
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- Depends on each company, but usually incentive pay is only on the additional lines. Ask to be sure. - nm
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I agree with you - 1000 lines is wonderful additional help! sm
It is too bad you have hooked up with a person who does not value family. I always put family first. I used to not do that, and I regret those years.
I would establish borders with her - sounds like she needs it.
The incentive should be for ALL lines sm
transcribed, not just the ones over 1100. That is cheapskate bonus.
Depends on incentive offered, benefits, and
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But isn't the increased incentive JUST on whatever is over 300 lines? Not applied to the first 3
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1000 lines / 1.5 = 667 X incentive pay scale rate?
Ok, I inquired about a job and this is what they told me. Does this make sense to you all? What are they trying to say they pay for QA work?
We have an incentive pay plan ranging from 0.07 cents to 10 cents per line.
Our editing accounts are converted into typed lines. If you edit 1000 lines,
it is divided by 1.5 to get 667 typed lines and then paid on the incentive pay scale.
Thanks
Wait until we get a lower base rate and incentive and no work for incentive.Should prove interesting
because everyone will probably have a lower base rate than now. As I say, should prove interesting.
It depends on how you are counting lines...
There is a big difference between 10 cpl gross lines and 10 cpl on a 65-char with spaces, without spaces, 75-char, 80-char, etc. I'm fortunate in that I am still paid by gross lines. How are most of your lines being counted?
Depends -- usually 2500-3000 lines per week - sm
though where I work does not have a minimum, but they are considering changing that shortly. Still won't be a firm # as they go by minutes, but the min. will be 60 minutes a day which will be approx 500-600 lines a day.
I do not know about words per minute, but lines per hour. And everything depends on the dictator.
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lines produced also depends on type of account, doctors, specifics, platforms.
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It depends on what the company needs. nm
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It really depends on the company.
I signed on with a company with a $1500 sign-on bonus. The first $500 is given in after you are off 100% QA, the rest is given quarterly and you must produce xxx number of lines a pay consistently.
Other companies have different stipulations, but it is never easy or just for signing on. They dangle carrots in front of you on purpose.
To me, it depends on the company.
If they're honest and fair, I'd give them two weeks' notice because you never know when you might want to go back in the future and because, as a human being, it's just the nice, professional, thoughtful thing to do.
If they've treated you like crap, if you can't trust them and if their general devious practices make them a company you'd never go back to under any circumstances, I wouldn't give them any notice at all.
Depends on company....
I've done many different positions and I did not find them to pay well at all. Plus, most are salaried and hours can end up being much more than 40 per week and/or include evenings and weekends. For qualifications, depends on company. Some companies hire people with NO MT experience for these positions : ( You can probably make more in less hours with QA if you find the right company.
Depends on company, but you will have to SM
use expander. Whatever kind company has or your own, if you can use it. You cannot make, I mean NO ONE can make good line count typing words out with using abbreviations. Once you get used to that, with your experience, you should do well.
Depends on your company
It would depend on the company you go to work for so I would think you would need to ask them or give the name of the possible company. What have you been paying as an IC or were you covered by your husband and if so what did you pay there. Every companyis different with their plans and if you chose your own very easy to check on a Google search.
Depends on the company and you
And how they count the lines. For accounts that include spaces and normals, expanders, etc. it can be pretty good. Your reports are good sized and I would say if you shoot for 1500 you would be doing really well. This can be done in a productive 7 hours. Can't say the number of reports, because some docs are a lot of dead air if you do discharges especially. At first you can expect to build up to 1K in 7 hours and then get to 1500 and even 2000 if you type with total concentration.
On the other hand, really short reports of just a couple of minutes which are not normals are difficult to add up. You can type 40 in a day and be tired after 3 hours or 4, and it will only be about 700 lines. And, if you work for a company which does not count spaces, etc., you have worked probably for 4 hours for only 350 lines, and you may not make it to 700 from sheer tiredness. This has been my experience. I have gotten the most lines after I have worked for a hospital for a while (or a service on the same account), have developed expanders, normals, and their line count is fair being used to the doctors and I had no problem with 2K at about 45 reports a day. But that takes a while, and it could be tiring if you don't get normals, so it is better to pace yourself and be content with doing the best you can in a fair line counting environment. Sorry so long, but this is an important issue for me after all the years I have worked as an MT. Good luck!
I think it depends on the company (sm)
but don't quote me on that.
The company I work for uses ChartScript and generally work is pooled by priority/FIFO. Work can also be assigned, but it's done through iPlayer (in my case), not by ChartScript.
I like ChartScipt okay. I think it varies, but for my company, it's Word-based and I have access to a report search which can be done by dictator, patient, etc., so I can look at other transcribed reports for information. This is an EXTREMELY handy feature.
It's easy to learn and, from my experience, pretty user/production-friendly.
Good luck!
Depends on your company.
I work for two different companies using my C-phone. They both have different settings. They should send that information, and if not, I would ask.
That depends on your company. You will need to ask your TL about that one, I guess. nm
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It all depends on the company you are working for. sm
If you are the only recruiter for a company, you are not competing with anyone in the same company, but you are competing with the other companies out there. You have to know the way to sell your company hopefully that your company has something to sell, you have to have strong people skills, be able to administer whatever kind of test is appropriate, and I think it is imperative that you have experience as a medical Transcriptionist as well as a QA specialist. I think both of those positions go along with making a strong recruiter.
Depends on the company. Usually not a problem
as long as you meet your production. Usually nationals are bothersome about your hours when you DON'T meet the production requirement nor the hours! Good luck to you! That was not a stupid question, by the way!!
Depends on the company's definition.
At MQ, a medical Editor is a Transcriptionist who uses ASR (automated speech recognition) to get her job done; she literally edits the speech recognition product.
The QA Specialist handles the QA blanks the MTs or MEs send.
That depends on the company's policy.
Each company defines it's own policy. Most all do pay it out but since offering paid time off is not mandatory by any federal or state government, there is no mandate that a company HAS to pay out any accrued but unused paid time off.
Your Human Resources or Benefits Department will be able to direct you to the policies that govern this for your employer.
Ex-HR'r
Depends on what company you work for though.
I had the same experience about 10 years ago. I did a comparison on 1 page and found out they were not paying me for any normals, Expanders or macros. I talked to the President personally and he admitted they do not pay for these things. So, I got paid for tp instead of the patient; etc. I told him I was shocked. He said, "that's business." I quit on the spot. That company is no longer around.
Depends on your company. One I work--sm
wants ***00;23**, which is the number of seconds in the report where the word is, another wants ***the word that I think it is***.
What does you company want?
It depends on how the company handles it
Those companies that say IC status and then define a shift and/or days are clearly asking for employees but not wanting to pay the benefits, taxes, etc., and they are pretty clearly breaking the law - at least the way I interpret the law.
I work for a company and am an IC - a true IC. The only thing they ask is for me to tell them how many lines I think I am going to type on any given day. They ask for that a month ahead of time, but it's completely up to me as to how many lines I want to or can type and then I can do them in my own time frame.
A lot of it falls on the shoulders of the MTs, unfortunately. If a company is hiring someone IC status, but then defines days and shifts to be worked and the MT accepts that, we are propagating that method of hiring and telling the MTSOs that we are willing to do that.
No, there's no pay incentive ... but there may be other incentive worth considering.
I'd give anything to have the radiation oncology department of a hospital I used to work at .. the reports were lovely 3 page affairs that, while not conforming to a "normal" conformed to a standard template that made the 3 pages fly by .. the dictator was a tediously slow (but clear) talking earnest young doctor .. and a small handful of his reports could rack up 500 lines with little agitation. ... a few sighs, but...
I think in the current state of the business, it is worth tackling a speciality or two ... OP's first, of course, but then whatever presents itself.
The two benefits will be seen in hiring and in work being available when the other easier stuff is all gone. Oncology patients generally are older and have more history to be documented, etc. While a great ER account is a truly wonderful thing ... when that's all gone, having some long winded, backedup accounts are a god-send, imho.
good luck. 
It totally depends on the VR platform your company uses...sm
Some are very good and the reports require little editing, others are awful the reports can be typed almost as fast as editing them, not good when there is such a difference in pay.
I guess it depends on what company or client you work for. nm
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Depends on how company counts unofficicially, as well as your speed. SM
I did excellently at one company, better than transcription because I'm relatively speaking a crummy typist, continued to do excellently after rates were adjusted as more people became proficient, the same again, but then my production mysteriously dropped, dropped some more, dropped, dropped, until I was making less than straight transcription--all without those official rate adjustment notices. I'm now with another company. It may be you, or your company may be underpaying. You need to figure that one out and act on it, one way or the other. Best wishes, Fellow MT
You need to know how your company counts lines. It probably is not
counting the same as your line counter.
It depends entirely on the company you work for. If their tech support stinks, then
the program will not do well, but if they have good tech support, they can tweak it to work just fine.
Depending on how many lines/reports a company
requires a QA person to do, it can be as much as $3.00 or more per report just for the QA portion. That is money I feel should be paid to me if I do high quality work rather than paying me the same or less than other MTs who are careless, sloppy, lazy, or incompetent and send everything to QA to be done.
Sometimes there are things you can't figure out, but at least take the time to try. You might even learn something. This is especially true for new MTs.
60 reports in a QA cue just because someone is too lazy to call the office to get a normal for a doctor who says to "use my normal" is not acceptable and the MT who sent that report should NOT be paid for the report that I had to find and put in for him/her.
Keep this activity up and no one will ever get a raise.
my company 127 lines/hour is minimum
nm
Depends on the pay and account. My lowest average is $15.52 an hour (roughly 182.6 lines an hour) w
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Read between the lines. When a company starts saying work more to make more
and you have to work in assembly-line fashion like an automaton, they are having a cash crunch. They held out one salary to you to get you to do the job, then they turn around and cut your pay because you make too much. They don't sound financially stable. If you've only been on the job 2 months, start looking elsewhere for a more financially stable company. Send out your resume and see what other companies have to offer and check out references for those companies. I and a friend in the past have gone part-time with a new company before resigning from the old one in order to make sure the new company is going to be compatible with us. It's hard to do, but it's short-term for only 1 or 2 weeks.
As an IC you invoice the company, count your own lines, and receive a paycheck.
First Choice, JLG, QT Medical, Metro in Atlanta, just to name a few.
Most use SylCount or something similar. I used Abacus - free line counting software.
the least minimum requined lines/hour I found for a company
nm
Bunch of us replied to similar ? on Company board under DSG lines post..nm
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3 additional?
Not too bad. I've seen the help wanted postings and wondered about them. I'd love to do the VR but have a bad back and can't sit 8 solid hours.
additional info
Hope this helps.
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ergoguide.html
additional thought
well, and I was having red flags pop up in my mind as well because on their website www.unitedtran.com, there isn't even a physical address if someone wanted to inquire through an alternate route, they leave no phone numbers to contact, only general email addresses. So, I really appreciate all the input tonight! Thanks!
additional info
Not sure about the driving yet. She said she had a computer guy that might can get me set up from home. She wants me to type into her computerized chart instead of just on paper if possible. I have 17 years experience, it's clinic notes for the most part, maybe some letters here and there. I was going to go with 65 count line including spaces and headers. I am in Tennessee in a rural area, just a small doc's office. I
Some additional thoughts SM
I'm curious about what you've decided and agree with Searching's excellent post; but for whoever else is reading, it's inspired me to emphasize a couple of things I'd have liked someone to point out to me.
One, the future of this field is editing, not transcribing, emphasizing a different set of talents and skills. Just what the differences are I don't know as it's not discussed nearly enough, but they're there. Fewer people will handle more reports, getting in and out of them very quickly. Anyone thinking of entering the field should try to assess as quickly as possible whether the abilities to read fast and edit grammar and punctuation on the fly are there. Don't transcribe for two years before finding out.
Second, some are going to disagree with me, no doubt, but school is much, much less valuable than the same weeks spent actually working full-time. This is definitely one of those learn-by-doing jobs, so examine why you're going to school. If it's to get a credential to show an employer you're ready to start learning, okay, just definitely don't turn down a chance to actually spend hours with headphones and a keyboard for it. Buy a set of med terminology flashcards.
Regarding what else one might look to school for, though, trainees should bring a pretty good understanding of grammar and punctuation to the table with them and not need school for that. If more than a quick brush-up of basic "rules" is needed, that could be an warning sign that talents lie elsewhere. Or maybe not, but be aware. Similarly, not reading very much could be another since reading imprints written language patterns in a way spoken language doesn't.
Last, more and more people are paid by production, not the hour. $0.0425 per line edited, or whatever. Do 300 lines per hour for a total of 3 hours actually spent working, be prepared to gross $38 that day. Do 850 lines per hour for 8 hours, gross $290. So although being a demon typist will always be extremely valuable, also be prepared to use every advantage technology offers to get as fast as possible. Get a word Expander and use it. A lot. Learn to write macros. And so on. Best wishes.
What the other reasons might be for some people tearing their hair out over low pay and others feeling basically satisfied with their incomes I also don't know, but the ones mentioned are very important.
Once again --- IC taxes - YOU only pay 7.5% SS additional
The only ADDITIONAL taxes you pay is the 7.5 for the SS tax. When you are an employee all OTHER taxes are withheld by your employer. As an IC you control the withholding of your taxes as you are the employer. You can find many deductions that you can take as an IC to make up that extra 7.5%. It just makes my teeth grind when someone says that now as an IC you must pay your own taxes, no employer pays your taxes except for half of the social security tax. All rest is deducted from your pay. My first and second year I did see a CPA but now I use Turbo Tax and do it myself. But keep track of any and all expenses related to your business so you get the NET income down as far as you can, going to the bank, buying of supplies, telephone, internet, mileage. I find that I have more usable income having my own business than if I were an employee. But again, everyone look at your paycheck stubs and see how much you made before your employer PAID your taxes and afterwards -- gee is someone seems that the taxes came out of YOUR check and they did not pay them out of theirs. It hurts to see that 15% taken away but just get your net income down as much as you can. So if at 10 cpl you were an employee you would need to add approximately .0075 cents or after deductions about 1/2 of a cent to pay for your 7.5 percent social security tax. Anyway that is my math for a Saturday.
Did your computer come with a packet of additional
software? I have an HP computer, about 4 years old, that came with several disks of extras, one of which was WORD 2000.
Thanks for the clarification and additional information.
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Additional info on SS taxes
As above post says, you do have to pay the employer and employee portion of the SS taxes. BUT, you then deduct the employer portion of those taxes on your 1040 at the end of the year. It's a pain because you have to shell the money out up front, but you get the deduction for it.
So, really, there's no difference in the taxes. It's just a difference in how and when you pay them.
My computer has additional ports on the sm
front. Maybe yours does, too. Odd that you only have one on the back but maybe I'm not getting the picture.
WordzXpress gave additional pay for more difficult
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