I'm expensive, .15 & .17 for my accounts, no extra for stats which are rare. Bay area CA. nm
Posted By: Deb on 2009-05-21
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I get 0.08 for everything, nothing extra for STATs. nm
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does anybody get paid extra for doing STATs? sm
if so, how much of a difference to you get for STATs versus normal cues? i am tired of getting hounded by STATs cuz they are "urgent" but yet no extra compensation for them. these days it seems over half my work load is STATs and my TAT is 24 hours for my regular pay versus 4 hours for STATs with no extra money. 
I get stats all day long, no extra $$.
Personally, I love the pressure...almost feel like I'm needed for a few minutes there ;-) Sick, I know.
I'm also an on-call person on nights and weekends every other week or so and I honestly really enjoy that...THAT I get paid extra for and that gig is SWEET!
It's a rare place that pays extra for CMT. 8-8.5 cpl is the average for anyone right
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Except, you are in the minority. It's RARE when MTSOs actually pay extra for CMTs.
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That's an EXPENSIVE area to live in....
I would think you could make a LOT more, based on the area you live in and your work experience!
Do any ICs with their own accounts charge extra for holidays?
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CA Bay area, two accounts still on micro, one at 0.15 the other @ 0.17 gross line. nm
But expensive gin and expensive cheese. I deserve it.
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Can they do surgery extra fast? What do they do with the extra glove in the pack?
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Extra shift or extra work
Has anyone taken on an extra job or shift with a new company for a just a few months to get out of debt or to be able to pay for something that is needed or wanted? I am thinking about taking on another job to get out of a stressful debt situation. I am just afraid I would be going into another stressful situation working more hours with the very busy family schedule I have.
Expensive and if lost very expensive
Very expensive and if ever lost would cost me the account. Also I have several docs that are very strict about HIPAA compliance and I am sure that they would not go for this. One would not even let one of the front office gals take home the tapes over the weekend so I could pick up on Sunday and get some of it done over the weekend due to HIPAA so am fairly confident that they would not go for this. So we will see what they say when I tell them I am taking a week off. I do have some gals that will help cover, it is the accounts that hate to have anyone else do it. But I refuse to digital and take my laptop with me to do accounts. I have never and wll never do that while on vacation and they know it.
PA - Pittsburgh area is one locale, Philadelphia area also.
TriState area - PA, NJ, DE.
More for Stats
But you know, the companies probably do charge more for stat turnaround of work so it makes sense if MTs are being hired for the purpose of doing stats that their line rate would be more. There would probably be a 2 hour TAT required for the work. and the MT would have to be available regardless if there was work "just in case". I asked the question because a friend of mine has been working for a company that pays 2 cents a line more for stat work (taking her cpl from a normal of 10.5 to 12.5 cents just for stats, and to 11.5 cpl for urgent reports that I think she has 5 hours to do) so I was wondering what the going rate was for MTs doing stat work only. I asked around about the company advertising 14 cpl for the stat work and couldn't find anything bad about them.
are you the only one getting stats? Ask. nm
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stats
Why are all the stat reports I get difficult dictators? Do no normal-speaking docs need their reports back quickly? I don't mind now and then, but sometimes it is report after report, all stats, all difficult dictators.
Here are my stats
In 1976-77 I was making 6 cpl, plus we had a $75 CASH bonus (real money - didn't have to pay taxes on it) for whoever did the most lines each month.
Later moved to a co. that paid by the hour. I was getting about $12/hour in 1979 at that co.
Changed again in the 80's, and in the 90's, was making about $23/hour for a 40-hr week.
Back to per-line in the 21st century. Pay better? No way! Per-line it's about 9 cpl, but per hour worked, it comes out to about $6.50 to $7/hour for a 60-70 hr week - below min. wage. And that's for 35 years of experience.
do you know how rare 9.3 cpl is?
I'm all for being honest so here it is: The cost of living has continued to rise while our pay has continued to drop.
Many of us are single moms or have husbands who are laid off making us the sole breadwinner right now. No, we don't have the inherent extra expenses that go along with working outside the home, but we DO have rent/mortgages, utilities, insurance, taxes, and school expenses to pay for and food to buy.
We don't have the luxury of working part-time...we have to scrape and claw and fight for every possible line we can get every single day just to survive. Many of us are fighting a war that you'll never see covered on the nightly news.
If we don't keep speaking out about this -- who will? We HAVE to stand up for ourselves because no one else is going to!
There's your honesty. If you're not personally in this situation, then count your blessings.
Not rare
I had an account where a company of dictators (not doctors, but PACs I think) was hired specifically to do dictations of discharge summaries. There was a lot of shuffling of papers, but some of them did quite well, considering they probably never met the patient, and I was happy that clear-speaking people were hired to do the dictations of a few very heavy ESL MDs. I don't know how accurate the dictation was, but it sure made my job a lot easier. I have to admit that I wouldn't want my own reports as a patient dictated by an outside person, though.
Facts and stats
Facts and stats are always interesting but fail to include things like the absolute lack of respect for what we do. When the medical records industry needed more MTs, the only innovative thing they have tried is sending the work offshore. No one in the industry has figured out that in order to attract and retain good MTs, you need to respect them, pay them what their worth and stop telling them they are a profession when their pay is based on piecework.
There's probably something terrible about them. Normally don't get more for stats. nm
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If IC could continue to do p.r.n. stats, but I
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$35 an hour! lol That is so rare for MTs now.
Maybe 5 years ago. Not anymore. I do both and make more with QA :)
It is so rare that I have no work that I use
that time to do things I don't normally have time to do, like clean and organize my house, get to some of those craft projects I've been wanting to do. If you have been that long without work it is time to start looking.
That's awesome and very rare, I'm sure!
Shorthand users - what are your stats?
Hi all. I was just playing around with my ShortHand program and noticed the stats button and it has been keeping track of my percentage typed and how much time it saves.
It was at 32% that Shorthand typed for me, and it saved me over a year of typing since 2005. LOL.
I reset it and it was at 42% with just 3 reports. It will be interesting to see what it will be Monday evening!
listen - it's a RARE MT who could do 4000 LPD..
can also use your cell phone but it's rare
If you have bluetooth technology on your cell phone, you can get a cheap bluetooth plug-in for your laptop and use the cell phone as sort of a modem. Good luck trying to do it, though :*( I have Verizon and have everything I need but they have some double-knot top secret spy access phone number that they don't give out. If you can somehow get that number, you can connect anywhere you can get phone service. (and if you can get it, PUHLEEEEASE let me know it! LOL) I think that most, if not all, of the major cell phone providers have this same capability.
Barring that, you can get a card from your laptop maker (i.e., Dell).
Here's a link to Sprint's mobile broadband card. Through 6/17/07, they have a promotion going and the card itself is free after a $49.99 mail-in rebate. You have to sign up for their service, which is $59.99/month if you have their voice service (i.e., you have a Sprint cell phone and calling service) or $79.99/month if you don't.
http://mobilebusiness.sprint.com/px500/?id12=SHOP_Promo3_UHP_060207_PX500
Verizon has several mobile broadband cards (you want one that is 'Rev A' compatible/capable). Here's a link to a page with all of them and their prices ($9.99-$179.99) which are 2-year contract prices.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneOverviewByDevice&deviceType=Wireless%20PC%20Cards
They have 2 plans: National Access $59.99/month & Broadband Access $79.99/month.
Hope this all helps!
BJ :D
It is rare, but not extinct to receive a
reply regarding how you fared on your test. For those of you who are presently going through this situation, I would suggest going back and reading the email you sent requesting the information. Often times online, the inflections in our words are misconstrued. You may be wasting time imaging the worst.
Second solution; just forward a copy of your original email to them; it only takes 10 seconds.
It is so rare that people sell their used
IT software, and when I've seen it up for sale, the person selling usually wants $150 or even more for it.
I purchased mine new from Textware Solutions. It just wasn't worth it to me to wait for someone to put one up for sale and you have to count on them to get the license transfer done, I think. With the extra production I'm able to do with it, I figure the software paid for itself in a month.
It would be very rare to be paid by the hour
while working at home. Too many variables and too many people would take advantage
DQS line count stats so far today for me
approximately 4 hours (not deducting bathroom breaks and moving around every hour or so because of a broken tailbone): 668 lines on transcription, 218 lines on ASR (just started ASR this week). I've been on DQS nearly a year though. Some days its better, some not. If I work consistently without distractions it's usually decent.
Mine did too by making a job stats invisible until it was in our lap!!!
Yeah!
do not find the same stats in medical journals...sm
I try to stay with reputable sites that tend to be more objective, or search in the journals such as JAMA.
Here's what the National Institute of Mental Health's site said - put it at 2.9%.
"Stimulant use among U.S. children ages 18 and younger had increased sharply from 0.6 percent in 1987 to 2.7 percent in 1997. By 2002, however, the estimated use was only 2.9 percent, suggesting that the rate of use has leveled off. Use was highest among 6- to 12-year-olds (4.8 percent), and lowest among children under 6 years old (0.3 percent). The low rate among preschoolers was also the most stable, countering fears that preschoolers' use of ADHD medications is escalating"
The reason why older kids have a higher percentage of using medications is by then the parents have chased down all the "natural" remedies and supplements and tried taking out sugar-- and found they don't work in the vast majority of cases.
the properties stats still do not count headers.
Do a test to prove it. Type one word in the document and one word in the header and you will only see a count for the word in the body of the document.
It's rare to have ops offered out here, anymore. The keep them in house more and more. nm
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They aren't that rare. I've worked with SM
bunches of them. Unfortunately, my experience with them boils down to this: The men who do this usually are the men who can't get along in a work environment with a lot of other men.
Hourly QA seems to range $13-18/hr. with rare few making
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If you work for a smaller MTSO, it is rare that
they offshore. I work for a small one FT and another one as an IC, and there has never been talk of them offshoring. A lot of the smaller MTSOs don't.
Stats during normal working hours are one thing
but being paged at un-Godly hours ???  It's just not worth the aggravation,IMO.
Well, you're a rare one... mostly I get newbies demanding I hire them...sm
for a variety of reasons- because I really-really-really want this job, because I have to work at home to take care of my kids/mother/handicapped sister/old dog, because how can I get experience if you DON'T hire me, etc. etc. Most can't pass a grammar test to show they can use effect/affect effectively, and some even reply with emails riddled with typos and sloppy work. So good for you, but you're about one in a million...sad to say
Some rare purchases of this made on eBay for around $40, but doubt
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I had no idea how many minutes I type in a day, so I checked some stats today....
I did 72.53 minutes and it took me about 6.5 to 7 hours.
Probably something to do with carpal tunnel - The rare times mine acts up - sm
my thumbs get weird and trembly (?). I suspect that is your problem. Try changing your keyboard position, if you have it raised, make it flat, and visa versa. On my backup computer I have to have the keyboard raised but on my everyday PC I have it flat, and my CTS does not bother me now that I have my keyboards situated well for me.
How about zillions of accounts. MQ has these accounts so overloaded even the new hires dont have any
work. I would love to read some of these reports and then they expect perfect QA and no blanks. Did they lose their minds completely.
The accounts are old and she keeps her accounts TRUSTING she hired the right MTs
who if in doubt will ask questions regarding reports. No one can find all mistakes in all reports and that is human to have a report with perhaps a typo. You think anyone reads through all the reports of a national company before they get to the hospital? Not a chance. Some random QA is supposed to correct all mistakes? Not hardly. Doctors/dictators make mistakes too. We all do. So do QA people. So the thing is this person hires good people who are trustworthy, the hospital likes the way she does their account and life goes on quite nicely w/o hovering editors/QA people. BTW, who QAs the QA people on your accounts. Ever wonder?
They are expensive too but most of all very
dangerous. Just make sure you are careful with it because they are the main cause of deadly fires every year.......My mother-in-law uses them to supplement and it worries me so much when my kids spend the night.
and it is EXPENSIVE. nm
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VERY expensive....to say the least...sm
It was a huge expense but well worth it because I believe wall-to-wall carpeting can be or become dangerous regarding medical conditions (poor breathing, asthma, mold, mildew, dirt hiding, etc.) living in a very hot climate. Also, someone very dear to my heart had died and left me some $ which I put directly into the floor, and now every time I even think about the flooring, I think about that person. It has humbled me....to say the very least.
MAN they are expensive!
Who can afford it?
Why so expensive?
And such a long wait list for the average person? Human beings should not have a price tag. What are they automobiles? Because if they are used (not infants) or have flaws they cost less you know. *Catholic Charities* adoption is expensive? What is that an oxymoron? I gave up on adoption a long time ago when I saw the celebs getting perfectly healthy newborn American children at the snap of a finger (and a fistful of cash) and I was told I may have better luck going overseas. What's next an auction with the paddles and all? I would not doubt it. It is disgusting.
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