No ONE should do VR for that ridiculous price.

• 3000 lines a day with VR? - TiredMT
  • At 3cpl, that's only 90 dollars gross. Take out - insurance, SS tax, income tax, etc., it ain't m
    • (sorry) - "it ain't MUCH" ! - nm
      • No ONE should do VR for that ridiculous price. - Hmmmm
  • I don't see how that would possible at all. - pyo
    • I did 3739 VR on 5/29. NM - SS
      • In 8 hours? Were you able to read over the report before you sent it - pyo
        • Sorry, really did not answer your question - SS
          • maybe that was my problem - pyo
            • If I worked like you state, then I would not - SS
        • You have to spell check and VR - SS
  • Will that be entirely VR or any straight included? - SS
    • IF you had hardly any editing - TiredMT
      • Feel for you if your place is like that - SS

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BUT!  We are supposed to transcribe his work with a smile on our faces....GRRRR.......  I swear they just don't THINK!!!  Good luck with that one. 

I also have a 4-year-old and the whole point of preschool at this age is the social interaction, then the academics come in to play.  She still has another year of preschool before Kindergarten, doesn't she?  Maybe you should consider looking into another preschool.  Sounds like the teacher is the problem. 

typing into the hospital system because all they have to do is type in a few things and get this information. 

That's what I think is so sinful.  They sucker you in telling

you can be an employee, you can make 12,000 a pay period

easY!

None of that is true.  And then you are left trying to figure out

how to pay the insurance, pay for the computer you sunk money

into buying and meeting their requirements, reference books,

the whole 9 yards.

And do they have a conscience about leaving a mom and her children

with no food?   I really doubt it.

And NO a new MT is not then ready for the next job because

all over again he/she will have to INVEST in the new stuff that

THAT particular company to meet THEIR peculiarities.

I'm sick of transcription now.  When they sent us home - that relinquised

the responsibility of these nationals from providing equipment and

turned all the $$ over to profit for them and ate $$ out of our income - not to

speak of the extra utilities run while home.  This computer heats up

my house terribly in the summer - it helps in the winter but it still makes

a considerable dent in my bill compared to my neighbors who work during the

day. 

Busy, you should really try to be a little kinder.....or read her complaint a little more closely.  I think her complaint was not about CONSTRUCTIVE feedback.  If she gets hard copies she can't read, what good are they?  Just how ridiculous this QA thing can get; one of the editors in a company I worked for corrected my "40-year-old black female" to 40-year-old Black female."  No problem, if that's what they want, that's what they get.  I corrected my Expander to "Black."  Editor #2 comes along and corrects me saying "black or white" is never capitalized.  I fired back a very disgruntled e-mail and said editor #1 had corrected me and that I KNEW black was never capitalized but if they wanted it capitalized, fine with me but somebody needed to get their sh*t together and figure out what they wanted from me.  At least with that company, editor #2 had some sense, she sent back a very nice e-mail saying that to appease editor #1 to go ahead and capitalize it until I was off QA and then do it whichever way I wanted and in the meantime she would not count me off for it.  At least editor #2 had some sense but ridiculous?  YES, indeed. 

Busy, if you're working for both MQ and Spheris, I assume your experience is about the same as mine.  I worked for MQ and for Spheris when they were Edix.  Once I was off full edit (in a very short time), I never heard anything from either company QA again so I assume they were happy and I went right ahead doing my best.

why not stick to your guns and work in something else for a while?  Who can eat as a newbie at 3 cpl.  If you work at McDonald's you would at least be able to eat!

No wonder the market has gone into the toilet.  It is full of workers who won't stand up for themselves!  If the docs want someone cheap, they get what they pay for.  I am also sick and tired of typing record reviews with mistakes from EMR and dirt cheap workers included.  But they do get the medical words most of the time.  Forget the easy words like seat, it's sit, and that drives me nuts !!

The docs will never get sued like that, so don't count on that one!

I agree he shouldn't have taken the money at all, but it shouldn't have been offered or put him in the situation at all.  Despite whether or not the incident was handled perfectly, it is unfair that he was expected to wait for treatment because of disputes over who pays.  He was unable to reach his employer, everyone was gone, small company.  Reports and money can be figured out later, not when he needs immediate treatment for possibly broken bone or at the very least a nasty effusion that needs drained and could later affect his tendons.

The system is definitely broken.

by the day.

I feel for you in this and will be sending positive thoughts your way that you'll get through the rest of the day without becoming too overwhelmed and stressed out.

First, this is an American, clear as a bell dictator.  Dictation does not come more straight forward than this guy:

SR:  This is a vaginal lady

Actually dictated:  This is a 51-year-old lady

Somebody explain to me how SR is such a wonderful tool?!?!?!

I am doing SR on Dictaphone EXText and it is just awful.  Reports are just full of this kind of crap.  I was just wondering does the Dictaphone SR server "learn."  I know there are some SR programs that learn after the same correction is made consistently.  The SR server will then auto correct itself.  Is this true with Dictaphone?  Because I have been doing SR for a couple of months now and it hasn't gotten any better and I'm making the same corrections over and over!  I might as well be transcribing!

have entered viewpoints on certain subjects.  It is an insult to MTStars for you to entertain the notion that only one person would post here with views different than what you would like to see.  Get over yourself and have a nice day for a change.

I as a small MTSO would be so embarassed to offer 6 cpl to anyone.  Could not believe what I read.   At the most I take  20 - 25% of what I charge clients and pay the IC the 80%.  I even do the pick up, QA, billing and delivery of finished products.  But to offer 6 cpl is a slap in the face.  Even newbies I offer 7.5 to 8 cpl and start them on the easiest accounts.   Hopefully she can sleep at night and look at her face in the mirror.  

unless you continue to allow the "price" to be extracted from you.  There are companies out there who value what you have to offer.  Sounds like it is time for a heart-to-heart with your current company regarding at least being adequately compensated for doing all the crap dictation (believe me, they KNOW you are doing it) and if that fails...MOVE ON.

I feel for you and I hope this helps but if you continue to allow yourself to be used/abused to the point it is ruining your life...sorry but don't look to me for sympathy, you DO have options and working at Mickey D's is not the only option.

I know my prices sound low but it is gross line and a letter is counted from the date to the signature line and blank lines count.  That is the way that the company did  prior to me taking the account over, very upfront about it and I continue to do the same and everyone knows about it.  So that is why my rate to them in .115 per line but it adds up as they are surgeons.  They prefer looking at the lower rate per line.  I know it is the "old way" of counting lines -- use word and take the total amount of lines and that is my line count.  Now you know why I don't want to give up this account.  

To me it seems a little low, depends on if you get a lot of consults or if it is just patient notes.  Psych consults can have a lot of tests that take a while to set up in a template but once set up, as long as the dictators dictate them the same way, you can use them.   My psych account I do for 11 cpl gross line and we have just converted over to digital.  Used to pick up and E-mail back.  But I do not have 24 TAT, I pick up on Th/Fri and have to have back by Weds night.  Also depends on how may dictators you have and if you can do normals, templates, etc.  Also each doc could want the same test set up differently.   But you have it now, see how it goes and go from there.  If you find it is too low, tell them and up it.  Again, depends on if it is chart notes or consults.   Sounds like you will be having your hands full to say the least.  Congrats and best of luck.   I do two psych, one for ADD children/adults and one that does a lot of consults for traumatic brain problems/cognitive and voc rehab.   

Patti

somewhere around 11 would have been fair.  Of course they say, you only press a button and it pops up. I had a doc tell me about how he dictates the same paragraph with his normals and wanted a discount because of that. I told him he could just add in that part when he got the report back, since it was so easy.

In your presentations, keep talking quality when your clients are talking cheap. Show them how nice the finished product is and tell them you would be happy to work with the docs to help them make templates for redundant work so that --here's the kicker-- they don't have to dictate the same thing over and over again.  Sell that the technology is for their benefit to make their lives easier. And again, when they say the little "but you only have to" just smile and say, how about if your staff just adds that when it comes back then...

Don't feel bad about underbidding. Do a really, really good job - spend some time in the office developing a relationship so they know you are a real person. I like to take my kids with sometimes when I drop by so they know when they sign the check, it's not going to a corp but to a family.  Go high end on the service, get it set up so it works real good, then raise your rates. You asked about a fair rate and this rate is not fair to you.

Email me with any other questions. We can talk over some of your options and do some trouble shooting.