I agree, it depends on who you work for BUT also the account
Posted By: VR editor x4 years. on 2006-01-18
In Reply to: Depending on who you work for.... you can make good money - What I know
and how long it has been on VR. If it has been on VR for a few years, piece of cake. If it is just starting out on VR - tedious work, low pay as it takes longer to edit than to just transcribe it.
I have been doing VR editing for 4 years now with an account that has been on it that long also...can make up to $50 an hour, and some times as low as $30 an hour when we add new dictators.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Depends on the account
No it does not!!!!!!
depends on which account
It really depends on which account you are going to be working on as to how much of a response you will get. There is one account manager who manages several who is NEVER around, doesn't answer emails or the phone and it's been whispered she may even work another job. There is a huge group of clinic accounts without a manager, they got rid of her, probably to save money since there have been lots of money saving cuts going on. Currently that one is being overseen by the HR lady with no transcription experience (the second in command, watch out for her, really thinks anybody can do the MT or Editor job without having any experience). There was another account with a really good manager but a bad platform, but she finally left, so hard to tell who is there now. The actual owner is a very nice lady but unfortunately isn't much involved and only knows what her second in command tells her, and she makes it look like she has all under control, and in reality she is the second top reason most people leave this company. A new manager has been hired for the new account we have, but yet again she will be limited by what Ms. G. will allow her to do, which won't be much. This used to be a really good company but steadily has been on the decline. Tell me what editor will put up with bad platforms, 100% listens and low work for 3-3.5 cpl? What MTs will stay on with bad platforms and being ignored when there is no work?
Yes, it depends on the account (sm)
I do think it would be strange to have a PE section. The physical exam section is the "O" section, for Objective. It would be redundant to have PE within O. You may want to ask for samples.
Depends what account you are on. I have been
there just over a year. DocuScribe is easy to learn, not bad at all. I don't have that many ESLs, mostly they are residents, but still I don't know about other accounts.
I think it depends on what the account wants, and
In fact, one account I type wants it both ways: They want all abbreviations expanded in letters, and usually no expansions except in certain circumstances on all other dictations by that account. The 'twice a day' vs. 'b.i.d.' thing is trickier. If my account has no specific rules about it, then for the sake of continuity, if the first couple meds in a list are written one way (such as b.i.d.), then even if they say twice a day on the next med, I still type it b.i.d. That way there's a little more uniformity, and I think also the list is easier to read. Of course, it all boils down to the preferences of those you work for.
Depends on account, but discontinued
would be correct (sometimes it means discharged)
It depends on what your clients or account wants. sm
BOS sometimes does not matter. The only thing that matters is what the people who sign your paycheck want on their reports.
It depends. If you have a very difficult account
an hourly rate would be great, but being paid by the line I make $20+/hour and I don't think companies would be willing to pay that hourly, so I guess I would have to say I'd rather be paid by the line, unless it is editing and that is a whole different story. I also think being paid hourly would make me maybe not work so hard to get lines and perhaps slack off occasionally. Depending on what shift I'm working I'm up and down every hour or so, putting a load in the washer, feeding animals, loading the dishwasher, etc. If I was getting paid hourly I should not be doing that stuff. I am not very disciplined and find it hard to sit still for more than 2 hours, so I would have to have a change in my routine. I enjoy the flexibility of being able to get up, even go outside and sit on the deck and watch the sunrise, etc. Another pro for the hourly wage though is at least you'd know what your paychecks were doing to be every payday and could maybe budget better.
I find it really depends on the account.
I really lucked out that I am on an account that has been doing VR for a while and the docs all speak pretty clearly. The reports come to me pretty clean. I only have to verify demographics and make minor changes to the report and I can get pretty good line counts.
On the other hand, I know MTs who aren't so lucky and end up having to transcribe many of their reports because they are so bad and end up making less money.
I love my VR account. I decided to do VR to save my wrists. I have had problems with carpal tunnel, but not since switching to VR.
It also depends on your account specifics too...
if it is verbatim, you type what they say...
Depends on your account, I would guess.
Some accounts want a strict SOAP format, so you would disregard the other headings.
I personally work on verbatim accounts so we put in any headings they dictate.
It depends on the account guidelines.
For the majority of the accounts I work on abbreviations are only expanded in the critical sections, such as diagnosis, impression, etc. This is to the client's preference, and it is considered an error to expand an abbreviation when it is not necessary.
As far as dosages, I always transcribe what the dictator says unless it is a prohibited abbreviation or an error. Prohibited abbreviations are changed, per client preference, to the acceptable term. If it may be an error, it is flagged for review. If the doc dictates "twice a day," they get "twice a day." If they dictate "b.i.d." that is what I transcribe. It is also considered a error, at least at my company, to alter what is dictated.
Much depends on the account/accounts that you are on (sm)
Like everywhere else, I suppose... I've been with JLG for almost 12 years and have had the same main acct the whole time. It's a large hospital system, and yes, lots of ESL, but only a few that I would consider dreadful. Have been on some other accts with virtually no ESL. Have also been on work types where I could rack up lines like crazy, and other times (like now, for instance) struggling to get 1200-1300 per day. Have had times where I felt extremely micro-managed, other times don't hear anything from anyone for literally weeks. Paycheck has always gone out on time, but unfortunately no longer do direct deposit. I guess you could say they've been a little erratic since I've been with them, but overall I am pretty happy. I believe they have several different platforms - I'm on "EHR" (for the past year or so) and while it's a little slow going from the patient information screen to the document screen and back again, it works with your own Stedman's spellchecker and with Shorthand, so better than some others that I've been on. I will say that the support personnel have not always been the best, but, again, I've seen a lot of people come and go! Hope you find a position that's perfect for you - or at least nearly so!
I have been paid both ways. Depends on the account. nm
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I guess that depends if it is a verbatim account...
I think even so I would type feces....
Same for me, I made more 10 years ago. It depends so much on account, SM
work type(for me), and expanders. I find it hard to stay motivated when report after report is ESL and a work type I can't make money on. The above poster likes radiology, I like OPs. It is easier to stay motivated when you have that.
Depends - one account I make 40 an hour, other - s/m
I grunt it out to make 10 bucks an hour. If I worked just the ER account, I would definitely make full time money for part time hours.
Durn second account. :}
depends on location, I know someone who lost a local account - sm
in Woodbridge, VA, was charging .12 a line (60 character line), got underbid and lost it after having had it for years. Now in order to get more but look less, she bids at .10 a line but a 50 char. line....comes out to .13 if a 65 cpl. You can't get much over .10 around here on your own which really stinks, or do some fancy accounting which in this case works.
I consider myself a pretty fast Mt, and I am lucky to hit 100 reports a day...depends upon account.
lines produced also depends on type of account, doctors, specifics, platforms.
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Same thing with nationals. You work all the time to keep the account caught up when others dont work
and then when they decide to put a whole lot of extra people on your accounts and run you out they could care less about how much you worked.
steady work...gearing up to start new account....but there was no work on Tues as it was a holiday
Be patient with your eyes open....
I agree unless your account follows the BOS, then of course
it does not matter what anyone thinks about it. We have to follow what the account wants, and unfortunately more and more are going with this.
i agree, it depends.
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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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Also depends on what you get. I agree with poster below. sm
I was told (also 20+ years ago) that I needed to learn how to type. Hated it, hated it, hated it.
I expand everything whenever possible. I had a doc the other day that I just fly through and found I did over 300 lines in one hour. Unfortunately, he disappeared after that. :(
Then I got a huge file with a page flipping mumbling sigher who would do the finger drumming while looking stuff up and I did 85 lines with that report and it took me a half hour. Talk about minimum wage. :)
I guess I was one of the lucky ones as far as speed was concerned. That's just something that will come with time. As far as required work for typing class, I think I ranked somewhere below an "F".
I agree it depends on the co. and the platform
I worked for a guy who actually thought about doing that to his MTs, and I said "ARE YOU CRAZY???" It's not "business," it's insane to punish your employees for working smarter.
I agree... it depends on where in the country you live....
I usually figure what they are paying per person for dinner and then give that as a gift times the number of people in my family who are attending. I also think it depends on how well you know the person. A gift should be a personal decision. The bride and groom should have invited you b/c they want you there not b/c of the gift they are expecting from you.
I agree depends on client. Typically
my accounts are verbatim and if I were to add temperature, etc. they would consider it padding. I can't even put an "A" in front of a number when starting a sentence and instead of typing out the number - say fifty-six I have to use 56.
I agree it is a scam to get your info. I too got one that said they needed to update my account -sm
info. Since I have never ordered or sold on ebay I knew it had to be a scam. I also forwarded it to Ebay at spoof.com. I believe I got another one with a few days and I emailed them back and told them to leave me alone as I knew they were a scam because I don't deal with Ebay. So far I have not received anything else from anyone posing as Ebay. Good Luck. Too bad people can't making a living the old fashioned way - earn it honestly!!!
I agree... I just found it funny on that account that the 3 worst where in the same field...nm
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I agree, I too doubt it was PayPal, someone hacked your account , plain and simple - sm
It can be done, especially if you ever responded to any spam emails. I had my debit card hacked at BJs, someone broke into the main frame and stole thousands of credit cards #, etc. They spent about $800 at Wal-Mart, PetsMart and for gas, bounced stuff in our checking account, etc. Since it was a VISA debit card, I had the money back in 24 hours after I filled out the fraud forms at the back. --but no one every physically stole my card or even had my PIN #. I am sure savvy computer hackers can do it , OR someone there at PayPal hacked and sold off a list---but I highly doubt they deliberately withdrew funds. I would have found out from the company that did the charge ***PAYPAL - THE XYX Co." where the mystery item shipped....doubt it was to your address.....That happened to me with a credit card, tons of stuff that I supposedly bought $800 of stuff from Victoria's Secret made its way to NY, not PA where I was living--interesting. Again was refunded promptly. PayPal may have been lax at how they handled it granted, but I am sure with a bit more persistance and going through the right channels you would have had it resolved a bit more promptly and to your satisfaction.
can you ask for another account to work on? SM
that's what i did. it was too much fretting over whether there was work.
companies won't wake up and stop doing anything. you will have to do it for yourself unfortunately.
You might not work on the account, but YES
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I can work all I want. I don't have to account
for my hours.
Depends on who you work for
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I think it depends on where you work..(sm)
If u work for a hospital and work at home like a lot of MTs I know do, they make out okay with an hourly rate. But made more when the hospitals paid incentives. But overall your right about the testing. Our hospital has mandatory monthly meetings, QA'd every month and productivity assessment. I guess it just depends on what your willing to put up with.
Depends on who you work for...
I have been reading a lot about this topic lately. It seems to depend on who you work for. I work at home for a large clinic and I absolutely love it. I get together with a group of ladies I work with once a month and we have department parties, meetings,etc. Without that contact I know for sure I would feel exactly the same as you.
Depends on who you work for.
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Depends on where you work...lol
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Depends on where they work.........
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Depends on how much you work - sm
I work part-time but but in too many hours due to my own lack of discipline and make $16K after 6 years. Started out at about $5K and increase it every year usually, however made the same for 2006 and 2007, hope to clear at least $20K in 2008, shooting for $24K by/in 2009 if all goes well with where I am at now.
Depends on where you work, so you really do have to ask
Depends on where you work.
Even though you are paid on a tier, you can get a raise. Don't know where you heard that.
I am an IC and have received 2 raises in the last 2 years. Guess it depends on where you work.
It depends on who you work for. Every
company is different. Equipment, software, foot pedals, etc., all vary from company to company. Your employer will let you know what you need. Some require long distance on your phone, others work strictly off internet. Wait until you have a job, then you buy what you need.
Depends if there is much work or not... sm
I work for a local hospital. I was production, then went to hourly because I typically would have 4-5 hours per day with no work and they wanted someone available. Radiology and ER are no longer dictated for us.
I work on an account that still has tapes and ...sm
it is a very profitable account. The line count is twice as good as several of the accounts I have that are digital. To each their own, but there are many doctors out there who do not want to go digital and you will find when they do you might just lose them to VR, as I lost a very good account to that because they figured out how to do it themselves. If the account pays on time, the doctors are easy to understand, and they pay you a good line rate then go for it, tapes or digital.
Well, I work for a national, but my account
is a big hospital, doing acute work. It was a heck of a way to learn starting off, but I know it will benefit me in the long run, just one of those days!
Closing in on my 2 years now, I thought about maybe applying at a hospital inhouse here that hires starting out at $20, but once you add all the expenses (not counting any deductions), you come out to about the same. It's just not worth it. It would probably be less stress considering I would work set hours instead of all the crazy ones I have been doing, but then you have to add in at least 2 hours of drive time to that each day. It evens all out I suppose.
The company I work for has one account
that does not want IV at all. They have programmed their VR software to expand out IV, much to the consternation of cardiologists when they dictate IV conduction time and the MT doesn't catch it.
Pay depends on where you work, I guess.
I know if I have a midnight deadline, it's 4:00 a.m. my time because I'm on the east coast and my national is out of California.
Good luck with the 3rd shift. I was thinking of that myself, but my husband has been doing 3rd shift for 7 years and I do first shift and we tell everyone that's why we get along so good. 
P.S. He usually tries to keep his all night routine on the weekends, (his shift is 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.M- Th) but sometimes he'll stay up on Friday morning and go to bed at 11:00, but it messes him up sometimes because his week starts Sundays with a 12 hour third shift from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. You'll get used to it. He loves it. No alarm clocks. No morning rush.
Depends on who you work for as to how much you make..
The first online company I worked for, unfortunately, found out later they were India-based. Anyway, I work in Escription and made SQUAT. It would take 12 hours or more to make $100. Now, I work for another company that uses Escription and I can make up to $26 an hour doing VR. I think these companies set something up in the line count as how to count it and also it depends if they pay for headers, footers, etc. I definitely got ripped off the first go round. I like the company I work for now and like Escription. You can make money on this platform, although I am paid more than 3.5 for VR. That is ridiculous.
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