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• HELP! How much to charge for copies? sm - Ga Peach
  • I make $43.50/hour and my doc knows that it takes me - sm - 1234
    • Well....he asked me to lower my line rate for him (sm) - Ga Peach
      • just be careful when a doctor starts doing that - sm - been in business for years
        • So how much for copies and envelopes? sm - Ga Peach
  • I do not give a lower rate for any templates--I still--sm - Debra
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I would never, ever lower my rates.  Is the one doctor in the group that is complaining a constant whiner?  He may just be a tightwad that still has the first .01 he ever earned.  Think about it - we complain about the cost of gas increasing and the cost of groceries increasing, but those businesses sure aren't going to drop the price of their product due to our complaining just to keep our business.  You run a business and the point of that is to earn money.  If you or a family member had to see this particular doctor, would he drop his office visit rate because you complained about his bill?  Never!

Not only that, these are cardiologists - one of the elite money makers in the medical profession. 

Write a note stating that you understand his concerns about the cost, but state that in spite of your expenses increasing along with everything else recently, you will agree not to go up on your rate for a year instead.  Tell him while there is less expensive out there, it comes back to the old saying of, "you get what you pay for." 

I have been doing transcription for many years now.  For many of those years I was paid 9 cents/line per 70 character count with the WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) program.  I have now been switched over to Microsoft Word and there is a variation in word/line count and a drop in my pay.  Can anyone explain this please?

I was getting $2/per minute about 7 years ago.  I'm getting a bit more than that now (weighted for difficulty) and it's still a pretty good rate.  Problem is the dictators I do like to cut and paste from prior notes.  With my per-line rate I was getting paid for all of the text on the document including information left in place from the prior report. (Yeah, I know - suhweet!) 

Dictated minute works out to be a little bit less, depending on the dictator, than before, but combined with the change in platform that makes everything slower, it's a shock to the system, to say the least.  Hope that helps!

However, you fail to see that if the company itself was honest about the company, its structure, the software, and the accounts, few MTs would leave so quickly.  It's the old saying of what came first, the chicken or the egg? 

To the original poster, if you feel uncomfortable with a company or an account, by all means go with yorur gut feeling.  If you feel somehow responsible for accepting the job without researching it first and want to keep your side of the street clean, you can always resign and offer to return the equipment at your expense.  As always, make sure you get a return receipt, but this might make the ending to this chapter of your life more comfortable for you. 

Good luck in whatever you decide to do!!!

In my opinion, 9 to 10 cpl for clinic, 10 to 12 cpl for acute care.  These should even be higher if you have your own accounts (no middle man).   But like some said below, it all depends on the account and also the way the lines are counted.  I have over 12 years experience in all specialties and in acute care, and I have worked for 8 cpl as an IC and made more per hour than working for 11 cpl doing acute care.   The 8 cpl was all by templates and I could make many, many normals, averaging about 400+ lines per hour, plus it was easy work. 

Ask specific questions about the work, what kind of account, how many doctors, etc.  That in my opinion is more important.     

I would like to get my own accounts with doctors but I don't know what to charge. How do I figure out what to charge. Does it matter where I live and what specialties I do?

I haven't found anything. What should I do a search for?

What would be a reasonable line rate for dermatology. Current MT is charging .12 per line. I will be typing very short one or two paragraph letters with no progress notes. 

Also, I need a dermatology reference books - Any suggestions?

Thanks    

I see a lot of talk about line rates and MT's unhappy with their line rate they receive.  I would like some opinions.  We pay 8 cents per line and the line consists of 65 characters plus spaces.  This is exactly how we invoice our clients.  Is this a fair rate in your opinion?

Just started training in ASR and received line rate and LPH goal proposal.  I have no way of knowing if this is an acceptable rate or not.  My first imperssion is that they have basically cut the line rate in half for ASR work and are expecting twice the number of lines just to break even on ASR vs nonASR.  Goody, goody  Type twice the lines for half the pay.  Would appreciate any input on competitive ASR line rate and production goal number, i.e., lines per 8-hour shift.   

In my honest opinion 9 cpl is good for online work.  You would want to go higher if you had your own account though to cover your overhead especially if it required printing or delivering the work, other duties as required including bookkeeping.   

I think 8 cpl is acceptable though in a case where the dictators are good, and you can get good lines especially if it is for a national or MTSO.  However, I would expect a raise if you stick it out, are responsible, and are in essence making the MTSO money.  I hope this helps. 

Then you have the fact that an employee might not make as much as an IC per se because an employee is getting benefits as opposed to pay per line rate.