Not all QA is paid per line. My company pays
Posted By: me on 2007-06-05
In Reply to: To the new MTs / MENTOREE - SecretaryPlus
per hour and pays VERY well.
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how about looking for a company that pays radiology reports by report and not line? nm
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well, we ARE on production. And paid according to what the account pays. Have rates gone up? sm
You (supposedly) get a percetage of what the account pays.
if mt paid 9, editor paid 4 or 5...how can company charge 14 and make it..sm
I know the going rate in our area is 14 cents per line. As MTs most companies here pay us 8 or 9 cents a line. Now add in the Editor rate at 4 or 5 per line..you are paying OUT more than you can charge a line. How would companies stay in biz?
Unless all work is sent by the company overseas at pennies per line, this would not pay for a company.
just curious how this works out
What company pays this much
Would love to know who pays this much for VR editing.
You don't get paid an hourly rate you get paid by line - sm
so because of how you are paid (not an hourly rate) you don't get OT, especially if you are an IC.
And you have a company that pays this? or do you work on your own?
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Please point me to a company that pays more
for ESL transcription. The one I work for certainly doesn't. 
LOL Probably the company pays for it. What a racket they have going on.
I don't believe a word they say and it makes me sick.
Where else can you find an addiction that pays by the line?! nm
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Anyone care to share name of Company that pays so much?
I'm interested
The company I work for pays by the minute--
So when you have dictators just sitting there taking their time those minutes can add up.
our company pays 80% of our regular rate. (nm)
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Do you think a company pays less for rural pay than city?
Does not make sense to me.
Our company pays a flat rate
based on the length of the meeting, and they schedule multiple meetings so you can choose which one to attend (during your shift or outside of your shift). Of course, they also pay downtime, so it sounds like our companies have somewhat different philosophies.
my company pays downtime for conf calls...
It may be worthwhile IF you can actually find a company now that pays extra for it -
I let mine drop after 6 years. It got to be very costly keeping up with the continuing education credits because for me it meant nearly always having to fly some place to get them, hotel, food, etc. My 2 cents...
I appreciate your responses. I had an option of line vs hour ($14/hour) but if line pays more...nm
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I too question you overhead expenses. I work for a company that only gets 11-12 cpl and pays us 8-8.
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That still is not a paid line rate. If your base is $0.10 per line, it will be $0.08 cpl.
Considering other companies pay 4 or 5 cents per line for VR - you are still making out.
Question about what is PAID for a line and what is BILLED for a line
Does the MTSO actually bill for headers, footers, and other things the transcriptionists are not paid for? I worked for a company a while back and their copy of what each Transcriptionist typed the day before and our copy was a lot different, about 30% different. Their copy was the billing copy. So, double their enhanced amount and subtract our 9 cents a line, it comes to a bigger profit than what I thought.
Two companies, both 65 char lines including spaces, one pays 0.10/l and the other 8.5/gross line. n
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My favorite speciality is the office who dictates it and pays the highest line rate.
It's the money, honey, that matters to me.
Getting paid by the line
You would get more being paid by the line.
Where can you get paid .13/line?
I have worked for Medquist for 6 years and don't get paid anywhere near .13/line.
I get paid 0.15/line
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I get paid by the line sm
You want to be careful if you accept a job paid by the page. The going rate by the page is around $1.25. This is fine if all you're typing is plain films, but $1.25 to type long reports is a rip off.
WHAT? I get paid by the line for VR.....sm
you don't necessarily know what you're talking about - I get cpl for VR and I'm 10 times faster doing VR than straight transcription!
Where are you getting your info from? 
If QA is paid by the line then I would
yes she is getting credit for the whole report. But she is probably getting 3 cpl so not really that much. You should get feedback from QA and company should contact doctor re dates but whose to say they have not and have been ignored? Been there and see both sides. Sorry!
QA IS PAID BY THE LINE ALSO
It's not just the MTs getting lousy pay and trying to make line counts for the day... as QA editor, I struggle for my lines and when someone doesn't care to proofread or take pride in their work, I pay the price. QA is difficult!
I am QA and paid by line also and...
I have an MT one in particular who always takes feedback as a personal attack. Why is that? I am just doing my job. She actually is a good MT. The bad ones just ignore it all.
Hello! Please SM, ? about how this line is paid. Thanks!
65 character B&W line + ICP
What does ICP stand for and can you explain "black and white line" to me?
THANKS!
Does the company get paid for the
templates? If they get paid for the lines, so should you. There are a few templates where I work and they pay for them. Why do them for nothing? Actually, you do them for less than nothing as you are losing money if they take away the lines.
To answer your question, if you are doing a lot of templates which take your time and then they subtract the templates, no, in my opinion, you don't make it up by typing for a company that only pays average, which generally means poor.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield or Mutual of Omaha - Which company pays off claims the best w/o hassle?
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In every company I have worked for that pays via mail, they mail the checks on payday. sm
Depending on the distance you can get them anywhere from 3-8 days later. Right now one takes 3 days, the other 3-5.
Paid Gross Line
Paid 0.09 a gross line with Courier 10 and 1" margins. How do you figure this?
Paid Gross Line
I was trying to figure what it would came out to be based on a 65-character line rather than gross.
We're usually paid by the line SM
I think MTEC is worth it, at least from what I hear.
I was paid from 4 to 6 cents/line
I definitely wouldn't take less than 6 cents a line, and even that is pushing it to really make any money. Most of the reports I got for one company had to be pretty much re-typed, so it was kind of like getting paid only 6 cents to trascribe, which is horrible! However, a few of the docs reports were pretty good and one was even at 90% recognition, where I pretty much just had to fix the formatting. It may be better for radiology, as I didn't do any of those.
To make a long story short, I hated VR editing and didn't make any money at it, even at 6 cents/line.
I would much rather do ME, (that is, if it paid the same line rate) sm
Which it does not, so I guess I will be sticking with MT, at least until I don't have a choice.
Do employees not get paid by the line?
I know I do!
I am paid by the line in radiology and I
Tried being paid by the report but was given long report after long report and actually lost money. Being paid by the report, in my opinion, is good if you have a fairly large amount of x-ray reports which are short and sweet and you can move right through them and that makes up for the longer reports such as MRIs and CTs.
No, but I am a QA editor paid by the line
There are a few of us I guess.
Paid by line question
I have been a Rad MT for 7+ years and have always been paid by the hour. I have been offered a job that is paid by the line (starting a .08 going up to .10 when they don't have to read your reports anymore). They also don't offer any benefits so I'm guessing this is IC status? I'm just wondering if you can make money being paid by production and how bad is it during the slow times of the year? Any idea on what an average Rad transcriptionists lines per day would be? I am a single and self supporting so money is a big deal (as it is with anyone) but I need to know if I'll be able to make my bills with no problem. Thanks in advance for all your input, help, etc.
Do PA's get paid to dictate by the line? SM
 I am doing a 25 minute preop of a patient admitted for removal of two lipomas.
paid by page or line
wondering how many people out there get paid by the page instead of by the line? I am getting paid by the page (varies from 1.50 to 1.80 a page, and half that for less than 15 lines on a second page). Welcoming any insights to what others are getting.....thanks!
Being paid gross line
I have been offered a job that pays 8 cpl per gross line. Is that a good rate? Thanks for your input.
You get paid for every line you read
and the corections you make. If there is only 1 correction to be made and the report has 100 lines, you get paid for 100 lines, according to the cpl agreed.
The number of corrections depend on a lot of things:
sound quality
VR software
platform
dictator
etc...
Did any of you not get paid by a trans. company?
This transcription company that I might work for says if you don't maintain 98% accuracy or higher for three consecutive work days, you won't get paid for those days that you don't maintain the 98% accuracy rate.
Has that ever happened to any of you? Do you think it's a bad situation to get involved in?
I get paid by the line. Pay by the page is a ripoff sm
I do a lot of MRI/CAT scan/neuroradiology, etc. These are sometimes long drawn-out reports and sometimes go to 2 to 2-1/2 pages.
Most companies that pay by the page only pay at most $2.00 a page. You can make more by the line.
I too am not paid by the line and I do NOT type. I do QA. There is a reason for QA because
MT has taken a toll on my body. Some companies will pull you in there as QA and then try to have you transcribe...if you do it once for them, they will ask you all the time.
Now, as far as pay....$15.50 to $16 is average for non-CMT employee per hour.
Line pay I have paid no attention to because any company that has true QA will not pay by the line. Quality means quality all the way.
If the file is 10,000 KB and you are being paid by a 65 character line sm
divide 10,000 by 65 for your line count. This has been done for years.
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