It is according to various factors, report

• Anyone here making 0.075 cpl and 30.00 an hour? - Acute Care
  • Those production bonuses - Paranoid
    • We are paid on a production system, - KD
    • Bonus Psychology from MTSO POV - Also Paranoid
  • Hmm. I'm making 0.095/hr., but the work is tough - and only translates to about $7-8/per hour.
  • I can make up to $40 per hour.... - MMMT
  • It is according to various factors, report - jd
    • Specifics, please.... - NightOwl
      • I have a lot of the more "common" - jd
  • possible, but not on a consistent basis, I don't think - MTinNC
    • 500-600 lines per hour - KATHY BLAIR
  • That's 352 lines per hour (SM) - Night Owl
    • Thank you for response. :( I figured it was nearly impossible for transcribed lines. - Acute Care
      • Great balls of fire! sm - Ella (retired)
      • Why do u think your co wants you to quit? - Rachel
      • Some Thoughts on Lines Per Hour - Night Owl
        • What Night Owl said! :) - Ella (retired)
        • I am so agreeing with your post and here is why - Reading along
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I had to do this when my last child was born and it was very difficult.  I think so much depends though on what kind of a baby you have.  Unfortunately, my last one was very needy, cried a lot, and wanted to be held a great deal which meant that I basically was unable to work at all when he was awake.  He didn't take good naps either, so I ended up doing all of my work late at night and early morning hours and needless to say, there was little time for sleep. I did it almost the first year of his life and I was one tired puppy.

I'm told from friends who have done it though that it can be done and particularly if you have a good baby who sleeps for long periods of time.  Good luck to you!

Privately if one is typing in a DOS program with very familiar MDs/work, you can do 300-400 LPH.  If, however, one works for a national transcription company, you can slash that about in half if you have to type through the internet and use all the F keys and the alt-cont-shift keys and all that stuff which slows one down tremendously.

Just my nickel's worth.  *S*  And I know this because I do 400 LPH privately and about 175 LPH for a national.

I've been paid $3.00 per page and made out very well, but I didn't have to search for addresses or correct their language due to poor grammar.  These were very smart docs.  The reports were very short.  The docs just told me to use my own discretion and expertise in regards to format, so I made them as simple as possible = less keystrokes.  Hope this helps.  Margins play a factor.  She is probably better off charging per line. 

How easy is the platform, how are lines counted, do you have reference books or do you use Google to do all your research?  Do you have lots of normals/macros, do you use an expander, do you spend too much time on-line or are you up and down frequently? 

I make $40,000/year working 5 to 6 hour days/5 days a week.  I have an easy platform, lots of macros, an expander, multiple reference books.  I do work for a national, but I am also an employee and get paid by gross line, so my $40,000+/year is better than an IC making $40,000/year. 

I guess I was blessed.  In my entire 20+ year carrier I've only worked for 3 companies and each one has been better than the previous one.  

Is $40,000 what you think you s/b be making based on the TV commercials say you can make or is that what you need to be making?   If you don't need that much money to live on then don't worry about it.  You have to look at pros and cons of what you are doing versus working in an office and you might come out even by the time you factor in clothing, food, gas, etc.  (I'm assuming you work at home.) 

involved that could contribute to a large return, such as losses in the stock market, medical expenses, etc.  Generally speaking though it is because you have claimed too many dependents or claimed single when you are married, but there are lots of people who are not able to save money so a little extra each month contributes to a large refund later and then they have the funds to pay off debt or do home repairs, pay college tuition, etc.  Now if they put a little away in savings they'd have more to show at the end of the year, but with interest rates so low it wouldn't be a significant amount.

This situation might not be ideal for you, but it may be for someone else.  It is their money, it doesn't affect my paycheck or my tax return so I figure it is none of my business. 

had better get that sucker typed before it gets out of ONE MINUTE TAT.

a live alligator swimming around the flood waters there in one area. The newscaster kept saying it was live and nobody would come out and was avoiding that area until it disappeared. It's probably waiting somewhere quietly for its next dinner to walk by.

Two of my accounts are in New Orleans and I have typed hundreds of patients with abscesses that tested positive for MRSA over the last few months. The way the city is now cannot be helping this at all. A few of the docs I do are automatically  treating for MRSA now w/o getting the culture report just because they've seen so many cases.

That would be real news there.

No, the woman bought a LOUIS VUITTON with the money she got

(debit card).

Hi, all:  I've been getting my own small clients here and there, and I've had a request for a proposal to radiology reports for a small radiology group.  Their current vendor is charging them by report, not line.  Anyone have any idea what to charge by report?  I've done some calculating with regard to average lines per report, and I'm thinking of offering to do it for $3 per report.  Any idea if this is too high or too low???  Any input is appreciated........

Working as an IC you should be charging $2 per report, that is what I charge my clients.  Good Luck!!!

I work at home for a service, but not as an IC.  I found work changed by having a temporary copy on file - then the QA changes/corrections - and then relistened and found changes made that affected the whole report, different medications, different procedures and PMH, etc.  Information that will probably one day go on to another physician that is incorrect and that I did not transcribe, but with my initials on the report.  Of course, I realize that once the physician signs it that the liability is on him, but it's just inconceivable that someone would do this.  I saw this happen one other time when I worked in house and one Transcriptionist didn't like another one and this was done in order to try and get the disliked employee fired.  However, it did not involve my work then.  I keep thinking that MTs all think ethically and with a legal obligation to the patient, but I know in reality that to some it is just a job.  I am tetering on talking to the company and/or the account manager, especially since I have everything in black and white - the first report - the QA corrections - the changes to the report after it came back to me, etc.  I'm just looking for some guidance on how to handle the situation. 

I had one MD last week that had this dinging sound throughout his report......I hit no key accidentally or held a key down.  This was on the dictator's side, this dinging noise.....

24 QA markers.  The darn thing looked liked Swiss cheese.  And it wasn't even an ESL.  He was an American who could speak perfectly good English if he chose to.  Instead, he slurrs entire sentences, sometimes 2 or 3 together in the same breath.  I cringe every time this guy comes up on my screen and even having old reports to look at in my feedback screen doesn't help. 

Okay, I'm done.  Have a good evening.  I'm changing into my flannel jammies and watching a movie.

I think 1.10 is low - i get 1.50 on one account, 2.00 on another.  I think rad reports are average 15 lines per report.

On other rad accounts I get 10 and 12 cents per line.

I think you were responding to another post, but...

I understand your predicament.  This is the reason why I will only work for an MTSO that pays per report.  And even with that, I need to see a good balance of reports, with at least 50-60% of the dictations 1 minute or less.   Also, an MTSO that pays for links and has normals.  Your average x-ray may be 10 lines, so imagine getting paid $1.20/report for that, and for the 5-line one, too.  Yes, you'll get CTs and MRIs, but these are so easy to template and add to your Instant Text that even if they're 3 mins, you'll still do them in little of no time.   

That QA person's name should be on the report as well, especially since they have the final say in its quality.  If the QA passes off a piece of ----, they'll still get off scott free, while the MT gets left holding the bag, as usual.