in-house great idea & worked

• Just venting about TAT.... - gettinold
  • Last year I worked per dium for a company- sm -
  • Ridiculous - Alice
  • doctors.. yuck - Just me
  • Understand your frustration - sm
    • in-house great idea & worked - cj
      • How about fine for lousy .... SM - Bayou MT
      • And how was that enforced??? Our docs - sm
        • enforced by.. - cj
          • Good for them!! - nm
    • So true, when I worked inhouse, the doc fell asleep - mlstoo
      • I had one of those once! so funny....sm - Confetti
  • Glad you got that off your chest. I feel - this way often too. But I figure
    • Not our problem... - grasshopper
      • we have to worry. - it IS our problem. sm
        • True but ... - grasshopper
          • They take all the work while we sleep, therefore - sm
        • I'd rather have the eating than the snot sucking - HappyFlaMT
          • I would rather have the eating - They said what
            • WISH THEY'D PUT THEIR CELL PHONES...sm - Bayou MT

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Slow at the beginning of the summer. After the Fourth of July, people started coming in for elective surgery and things like that and work picked up.

It used to be really slow at Christmas, but with high deductibles on most insurance policies, December was fast becoming the busiest month of the year when I left.

at several different hospitals, we would bring a problem dictator to the attention of the supervisor, who then would present it to the HIM manager.  Most of the time the problem dictators got better after a discussion with the manager.  If it costs the hospitals EXTRA money, believe me they will take corrective action.  Money talks!

Sometimes, there are very legitimate reasons for corrections, as we all know, and I don't think Frustrated was upset about the legitimate ones.   There is a lot more of this careless dictator crap going on at teaching hospitals, but at least they have an excuse, they are new to dictating and usually feel quite bad for making so many corrections.  If they realize this and make an effort to be more careful, I don't have a problem with them, but there's just no excuse for the long-time dictators who carelessly make the MTs jobs more difficult.

While a certain amount of addendums or mind changing does happen, an "abuser" should always be brought to the attention of management.  No one knows about these dictators unless an MT brings it to the attention of those in charge.  Frustrated has a right to complain!  I feel her pain!

I had a dictator (on an account at an MT service) who made 10 different corrections to her reports on a regular basis & I am not exaggerating.  I had been instructed to join them altogether (in a time-consuming fashion) and fed up finally, I flagged them ALL separately for QA.  The transcription manager gave me a hard time about it, but I fought back.  However, when I talked to QA, she told me I did the right thing and that the hospital was having a "discussion" with that particular dictator as there was NUMEROUS complaints.  Dictator cleaned up her act a bit after that & I didn't have much more trouble with her.

and when I went on Maternity leave they set me up from home.  I started working for a national in January.  My other at home position went VR and they brought all the jobs back in house. I couldn't go back into the office as I have two little ones and the cost of daycare is outrageous.  What's the sense of working then?

We got paid hourly plus incentive pay.  Anything over 1100 lines a day was paid an incentive rate of 5 cents per line (plus your normal hourly wage).

So, if I typed 2000 lines in an 8-hour shift I would make:

$16.50 x 8 hours = $132

900 lines (1100 to 2000 lines) x 0.05 cpl = $45

Total for the day = 132 + 45 = $177.

We had a maximum of $1000 a month that we were allowed to earn in incentive pay.

Hope this helps you!

Chickadee

I still crack up at the time my dad came home from work to find my 2 eldest brothers room a shambles with clothes strewn all over the place.  Being a senior and junior in high school their clothes WERE prize possesions..until that day when they got pitched out the window into the backyard full of mud from all the spring rain. 

Now that one worked as they never ever let a pair of shorts even touch anything but their dirty clothes basket.  Now, I'm using the same standard on my boys and just the uncles telling that story keeps them in line

never as much as a single episode of no work available.  Much to my dismay, I have found out that MTing from home for a nation is so unpredictable, in so far as what your paycheck is going to be every week or 2.  They all say "there is plenty of work," which is probably factual.  However, the nationals are primarily interested in pleasing the client with their promised swift turn-around-times.  What they forget is that if it weren't for the MTs, there would be no turn-around-time whatsoever.  It's really very discouraging and quite unfair.  Most people try to adhere to their monthly budget, which is impossible when one never knows how much they are going to make from one week to the next. We ARE the providers, not peeons, and resent being treated as such.   

I use timestamp by syntap.com.  Free.  It's a clock that I shut off and turn off.  When, I stop typing to take a break of any kind, I shut it off, and then I turn it on when I am back to work.  This lets me see just how much time I can waste - like time I take to come to this board when I should be working. 

You can set a dollar amount that you earn, too, to show how much you are making in the time you work.

No "kaching" sound, either, but I keep it running where I can see it as a reminder of my time.  It has improved my line count during the hour so I am not goofing off so much.

I transcribed an x-ray report yesterday that was 1 minute 59 seconds long. For 1 minute and 53 seconds, the radiologist was on the phone with her child trying to explain the concept of time, as in how long it would be before she got home. Then she had a conversation with one of the x-ray techs about explaining the concept of time to children. The last 6 seconds of the report, she dictated a chest x-ray. And yes, she gave it a full dictation - this lady talks fast.

Once in a while I overhear something juicy, though....when I worked in-house, I heard a conversation between two radiologists about a new doctor they were hiring, and another time I heard a discussion giving their not-so-great opinions of some of the other doctors at the hospital. After all, we were told to always listen to the very end of the dictation to make sure we didn't miss anything.

Much Luck; you may be surprised!  Be flexible, that's what I say!