Math whiz needed on hosp/clinic board

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I just read your message below and if you are doing 16,000 lines in two weeks we do about the same with my 4 accounts as I average 32,000 to 34,000 lines and work those accountd about 20 to 22 hours per week  (with delivery, printing, etc.).  Then I work in the clinic for about 20 hours at an hourly rate. I could make more by picking up another account but I do enjoy getting out of the house since I am alone now and the docs out there think "I walk on water" so that helps the old ego.  I know I am lucky with my accounts and thank the Lord everyday that I am able to do this and make the money that I do and just want others to know that it is possible to make a good living but you gotta work at it and make your programs and computer work for you.     Thanks for you honesty also.   Others may not believe you but I do and it is possible to make 50 to 60K a year.

Patti

every VA hospital and every veteran here in the USA will tell you the same, 6 months to get seen, to get a CAT scan, et al......in THIS country, they treat our vets TERRIBLY!!  Not just the vets either - the people who helped during 9/11 and down at Ground Zero are being refused treatment in this country.........

Again, see SICKO........by Michael Moore...whether you like him, his movies, or not.........this one is important!

I'm hoping someone will be able to advise me about some good questions to ask of the HR person of a hospital in my hometown; it's really hard for me to be objective about this decision because I want so much to leave the city where I'm living right now.  I go back and forth trying to decide if I should even try this. First of all, this job was advertised as "per diem" -- forgive my ignorance, but would that be the same as a contract position?  I had trouble once before making a living doing at-home MTing as an IC and paying my own health and life insurance, as I'm 100% supporting myself.  It was certainly a shock after employee status--but I was so burned out at that inhouse job--transcription force cut in half, pay reduced, phasing out dictation in favor of computer templates! I took a chance even though I had an unrealistic belief in my own abilities, I'm afraid, and tried IC for a national company.  I'm not working at all right now and am currently living on my savings. 

I feel like something, anything would be better than nothing.  Some foot/ankle problems also, related to standing at the last clerical job I tried, so a lot of even part-time jobs are out of the question at the present.

I do have some family at home and this hospital has a very good reputation as a good place to work, good (happy) employees...but, of course, don't want to move and still risk getting in an impossible position again!  Please let me know of some good questions to ask during the "assessment" and interview Friday AM (tomorrow)!  Sorry; realize this is rambling--many thanks--

MTSOs are paid by hospitals and/or huge ugly conglomerates who exist to attempt to try to help the hospital turn a profit, or at least less of a loss. MTSOs are desperate to get business, so all too often they sell their soul for a pittance (what a decently paid IC would make per line).

The MTSO has to pay the piper:  You, copy paper, management, technicians, equipment, QA, trainers, lawyers (yikes!), accounting firms, rent, and on and on.

Yes, many MTSOs make a boat-load of money, many spend money badly and the MTs pay the price, but many are barely hanging on by their toenails.

It's the trickle-down theory in real life. People use the medical system dishonestly (people we know, might even be you), insurance companies want to pay as little as possible because they have mouths to feed, hospitals want to be able to pay their people and improve equipment and be able to save lives, so they try to cut down on what they pay to THEIR overhead, the MTSO. The MTSO is making less so (hopefully) try to cut down on their overhead so they don't affect us, but I know for a fact that too often the MT pays the price long before the CEO and his/her close friends have to cut down on their spending. But, that's the story at every level. The little guy pays but, in truth, we are also the crux of the problem.

Life goes on. Let's all move to a socialist country!

1,000 words x 5.5 char per word = 5,500 characters total

5,500 characters /65 standard characters per line = 85 lines

$5/85 lines = $.059 per line, which is less than 6 cents per line.  Not a very good deal unless you're a total newbie or it's a really easy report to type. 

But everything else I said is correct.  (GD&W)  

So that would be based on 8 cents per line, she must make at least 24 cents per line?

LMAO!!!!

Ok, let's say you're a speedy Transcriptionist and can do 2000 lines a day.  You would earn:

15.50 x 8 = 124.00 (base pay) plus

$40 extra for extra lines plus

employee status with bennies (value? a lot!)

but based solely on pay, you would earn $20.50 an hour!  Not too shabby!

Chickadee

I just charged a POSSIBLE new client 11 cents a line - now here is my dilemma - I suck at math. 

If the client should ask me, is that 11 cents per 65 characters with spaces or without spaces - what should I say.

Second, how do I figure out the math  I have Microsoft Word and it has a line count and character count with spaces and without spaces.  How does one figure out the math?

Oooohhhh what was I thinking....

on one of my word documents, and they were almost exactly the same.

1545 characters without spaces divided by 55 = 28.09 lines

(same report) 1851 characters with spaces divided by 65 =28.47 lines

so, I would say it is almost exactly the same as 9 cents per 65-character line with spaces.

Chickadee

Okay, here and on other boards there are many questions as to "which school to attend" and "best schools" and "only three schools matter" and so on and so forth.

There are at least 100,000 MTs working in the U.S., according to the BLS stats.

100,000.

Not even 1/10 of the working MTs could have possibly gone to those schools.

That leaves 90,000 MTs trained elsewhere, for those of you following along at home.

And yet, the constant refrain is "Andrews, M-Tec, and CS."

And they are good schools, certainly, especially the first two. But they aren't the ONLY schools and people who are spreading the hysteria that "you won't ever work unless you attend on of those three schools" are not helping the profession. Some of the message boards on other forums (fora) are so obviously biased that it's laughable, yet the newcomer to the field might not pick up on that.

A challenge: Tell where YOU went to school.

I went to Meditec and I'm working, folks. And doing well. And enjoying it! I have several "online buddies" who attended MT Advantage. They are working, too!

And to those who will say it was "mere luck:" 90,000 people gettin' lucky -- I like those odds!!!