We get paid $1.10 for radiology reports and my supervisor transcribes also sm
Posted By: So true on 2005-08-04
In Reply to: after reading supervisor posts below where they are transcribing too, it does beg the question of - cherry picking.
she pick all the easy doctors. How I know this is because if she doesn't finish them all she says "I have work that I couldn't finish I need someone to finish up." They are all the same doc no more than 3 lines or normals.
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? about radiology reports
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? about radiology reports
So, to answer your question about it being normal, it all depends who you are typing for. If you are typing for an outside facility yes but if you are typing for a hospital no because most have a platform that MTs type the reports in. With this, you only have to type in the patients MR# or accession# provided, look to make sure the patient name match with what the dictator is saying, you then will get the header(s) for the report, select the appropriate header for that study and then you get a document to transcribe the report on that is formatted with the patient information. After typing the report, you then update it in their system and move on to the next, it’s that simple and easy. When typing for an outside facility, they have their MTs typing reports in a word processor program like Word for example using their template which you have to enter in all that header info.
It would be easier if you could print out the lists since it is time consuming having to go in and out of screens, that is ridiculous. As a radiology MT, you type many x-rays reports that are short and you really can’t make a line count when having to go in and out of screens. When I had worked for a company similar to who you are working for, I found myself having to really type hard to make my lines. I no longer work for that company and now work for a different company that I enjoy and I do not have to type in the header info, doing hospital radiology transcription. I make a little more per line and I make twice as more per pay period versus the other company because I have nothing to slow me down. I think MTs should be paid more than 8 cents per line or per report to compensate for their time when having to enter in header info and having to move between screens.
radiology reports
I made $50,000 last year. Work for a teaching hospital. The Neuro Interventional reports rack up the line counts.
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Radiology preliminary reports
Thanks for the info. I ask because our attending physicians are not getting reports on inpatients until sometimes 12 hours after admission. It seems to me that as soon as it is transcribed it should be sent in a preliminary form to the nurse's station and then the original with the radiologist's signature would be substituted for the prelim. Our Radiologist insists upon overreading every report and signing before ANY report is sent to the floor. Seems unnecessary to me and we are working towards preliminary reports. We have both electronic and paper records and in the very near future the radiologist will be e-signing the reports. I do the acute care transcription and seem to be getting a lot of dictation with "x-ray report is pending" on next day transcriptions and sometimes two days afterwards. I think we might have a bit of a struggle on our hands but hopefully he will see the necessity of the preliminary reports. (Or I might be forced to seek other employment) LOL
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When starting your own transcription business typing radiology reports such as x-rays (plain films) and mammograms, what would be a reasonable price to charge a client per report? Should I charge per report or per page as some rads read multiple exams under one study resulting in two page reports.
Radiology reports what to charge
Thanks, that helps alot.
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Can someone tell me the types of reports there are in radiology transcription. I've transcribed for years and have experience transcribing so many things and I think I've got enough experience to transcribe radiology but not positive exactly what comes through to radiology transcriptions as I've always been considered acute care. Just curious about the types that come through to radiology.
how about looking for a company that pays radiology reports by report and not line? nm
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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.
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No, acute care is paid more than radiology. sm
Radiology is paid at a lesser rate in most all hospitals in my neck of the woods - Northeast!
Thanks for your input. We type regular medical reports in Meditech and radiology in Cerner. SM
I am really considering presenting the idea that we measure productivity on minutes transcribed instead of lines. I don't know if management will go for it, but it seems like the best scenario considering all the trouble we've had.
Thanks again!
Is $1.20 per report plus paid for links good for radiology? nm
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I do radiology now, paid by the hour, work from home, can it get any easier than that?
add to that ASR, getting paid 1/2 for basically re-typing reports! nm
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VR reports get paid VR rate whether I straight type or not.
I have just gotten to the point where on certain docs I know their VR sucks, so I straight type because it ends up being faster. It sucks, but that is the way the business is now a days, so I don't have much of a choice. I need a job, and I like where I am at, so don't like to speak up too much because the are really pushing the VR.
in 1994 I typed IME reports and was paid $5.00 per page, wish I had that now!
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could be short reports and getting paid for headers/footers in a 10-hour day.
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LOVE teaching hospitals and long-winded reports. Less ADT time which I'm not paid for.
Hate filling in ADT screens w/ searches just to do a one minute report.
And I say an MT who transcribes like it SM
is 1995 (all the hyphens, MT's) is harder to deal with than an MT with only a couple of years' experience.
This individual is not someone who transcribes on
a routine basis, she was more like an account manager who assigned the work and now is assistant director of operations, I think, so I doubt she would have a stockpile of "normals" she made for herself on any account, nor have a super expansion file. Which leaves 1 explanation. I worked with her when she was at another company and she never typed there, more like a clerk-typist position.
the way the QA/MTSO transcribes
Are your being QA'd by an Indian? Does your employer outsource and do they use Indian QA? It is happening.
I beg to differ with you. An MT transcribes,
she/he should not have to translate/decipher what a rude person is trying to say. Doctors should realize, just as the MT does, how important that medical record is and that their dictation of that medical record is vitally important. Maybe they should be taught dictation and manners and grammar, etc. 
If you submit your reports on time and correctly, you get paid correctly. Pay has been on sm
time for 2 years now. 1st and 15th for employees, 2nd and 16th for ICs. If it falls on a weekend or holiday, it posts the next business day.
By the way, there is no Sophie on radiology at Keystrokes. Must be a troll.
well, if her typos are any indication of how she transcribes...nm
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Like it or not, a "transcriber" is "one who transcribes" sm
Transcriber - noun: someone who makes a written version of spoken material
For QA consulting I'm paid per hour; QA instructing (college) paid salary, QA editing paid per li
I am an IC and work for two different MTSOs as well as instruct at a business college.
My sister transcribes for a nursing home with about 5 doctors.
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The MR reports were being filed. Referring physicians/medical care providers reports were not.
This is a hospital radiology department with in-house MTs and a clerk who is in charge of the report distribution.
The two sentence normal reports will balance out the 3 page reports.
I am Wendy too
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
But how much are the US EDs gonna be paid? Typically this work is paid at 2-3 cpl. nm
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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.
I would move on. I think it is so unfair not to be paid for spaces! I think we should get paid
per keystroke, but that'll never happen. I just think that these national companies are going to keep finding ways to cheat us. I found a job working for a hospital as an employee, paid hourly plus incentive, and they let us expand everything! Somebody's gonna have to kill me to make me give up this job. I will never go back to the national's again.
I feel for you though. I know that for us MTs those good jobs are few and far between and some have little choice but to work for the nationals. I just happened to luck into the job I have now. I just applied at the right time.
Good luck to you whatever you decide.
If those companies paid a fair wage, and paid more
all came out equal, people wouldn't feel the need to try to make up the deficit by going for the good stuff. I actually prefer the harder, juicier reports. But I can't make a living doing only that, because the pay is not commensurate with the difficulty. So even though I prefer not to, sometimes I have to pick up some of the easier, more boring 'line-o-matic' reports just to make ends meet. Tell your MTSO to make it work their while, and MTs will stop taking all the easy work away that you obviously would prefer to keep for yourself.
You wont show UE being paid because it is employer paid -
the employee will never have to pay this.
What you "should" be paid and what you "are" paid
sadly are two very different things. Good luck on demanding more..because someone else will just come along and take it for what they offer and they know it. 
Except my supervisor is NOT an MT
And anyway, our experiences are just different.
I think if I was being routed crap, yeah, I'd be pissed. I'm just saying routing, or reserved as someone pointed out, isn't ALWAYS a bad thing.
It's not cherry picking if the folks who do the routing aren't transcribing. And at my place they're not. Trust me, I ask them questions and they have no idea what I'm talking about. They're admin people, not MTs.
MQ supervisor
Mine is a wonderful lady, helpful, funny, hard-working. I think Atlanta has the best staff in the country.
Not unless they are actually your QA supervisor.
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Tell your supervisor!
Do you work for a company that is located in Massachusetts? I won't say the name....most pathetic QA on the planet.
Supervisor of who?
If it is just her, who is she supervising? Maybe they want to pay her to supervise at this point since they gave her the title? How do you not give the girl a chance? Anyone with experience would need trained even on the difficult doctors. Give her some samples. Just because it was not the "supervisor's" decision on who they hire doesn't mean this girl wouldn't work out. I think the supervisor is afraid this girl might just show her up while she's gone!! JMO.
I had a supervisor like this. (sm)
Her mistakes & shortcomings were glaring and inexcusible. But although these were, and continue to be, pointed out to HER supervisor (who hired her) and even higher-ups, they stand behind her as if she were a saint. (Which she is NOT.) Nope, I really don't think it's worth pointing out her flaws, it'll just put you under a microscope and in the company's gunsights at a future time. That's the kind of people upper middle management seems to want these days. Pretty sad.
What do you think of a supervisor
who watches her transcriptionists' typing time including in between reports for the whole shift plus, even when there is a split shift, and then questions if there is more than a few minutes in between reports for that whole time. Just wanting some input. This truly exists in at least 2 jobs I know of and I have a certain opinion about that. And this would not be a manager who is watching newbies to help them if they were needing help, this is someone monitoring the whole staff. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
AND CC THEIR SUPERVISOR...SM
They will think twice about nitpicking then.
yes, my supervisor and other transcribers
are well aware of the system. And YES I DO DO DO DO DO type the foreign and American mushmouths. 520 lines in six hours is nothing ... I average 220+ lines an hour.
I've been both, supervisor and MT
I work just as hard and you're right, hear just as many excuses as when I was a supervisor over about 50 people. But at least then I could do something about it.
A GOOD supervisor will:
1. Inspire confidence.
2. Share information.
3. Gain cooperative of the staff in completing work on time and reporting to work as necessary because they respect and like the supervisor.
4. Does not lie to their staff.
5. Assists as necessary, but does NOT cherrypick the accounts, whether or not they are paid a salary.
6. Has a little empathy for their fellow workers.
7. Recommends raises to the boss for those that are worthy of it.
8. Communicates regularly with staff by e-mail and at least once a month by telephone.
When you hate your job, we can tell it. When you are not competent, we can tell that too.
I'm not saying I want to be best friends with my supervisor,
I rarely take time off unless its an emergency, in fact its been a couple years, and not too long ago there was an emergency with my health. My supervisor only told me she needed me on working asap, did not inquire about my health, wish me well or to get better. Its just work work work...which seems kind of cold to me.
When I worked for a local office and knew them for years, as for favors, meaning i'll work my fingers to the bone, settle for getting no raises whatsoever, not complain, just give me work that i'm the most proficient at so we both win, like predominantly operative reports or maybe even psych.
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