radiology reports what to charge
Posted By: Terry on 2005-07-13
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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.
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Radiology reports what to charge
Thanks, that helps alot.
Radiology transcription, what type of reports are considered radiology
I have lot of experience with everything and I would like to know what exactly is considered radiology so I know if I qualify for that type of work? I've had many types that I think qualify for radiology.
What to charge for radiology?
What is the going rate to charge for radiology reports? Would you charge by the report or by the line?
what to charge for reports
Hi,
I started out on my own and went with $.10 a line, 65 character. They seemed fine with that. The next doc i went to I charged $.12 and am still getting that today. If your doc balks, you could charge per page, kind of figure out how many lines there would be and figure what would be fair.....When i charge per page, i charge $5.00. I think it is fair, i do good and timely work and that is what a doc wants. you really have to kind of feel out the doc, but i have found in most cases, they are new to it and are willing to pay since they don't usually know what the going rate is! Once you are established with her, she'll start referring docs to you. It is an ideal situation.
The other option is to charge low for the first 30 days and raise it after that. Tell them you are giving them this deal so they can see how you work. Hope it works out for you.
Cindi
Charge for faxing reports (sm)
I did a search and can't seem to find this topic. An office that I transcribe for has a new type of report that they would like faxed to the referring physician. I have a fax and am willing to do it, but I'm not sure what to charge. Would you charge by the page or by the report (mostly 1 page but sometimes 2 plus cover page)? Thanks much for your input. KM
? about radiology reports
Can anyone give me some comments? I just signed up to work part time with a radiology account and I love the dictators but you have to type in all the header information which is a lot. The information is picked up by going to a separate efax web site for each clinic and looking for the patient's name for that particular report. Some are hospital stamped and others are all handwritten and you have to keep jumping in and out of 3 different screens to type this all in; this is ridiculously tedious and very time consuming and it is very hard to get your line count up. Is this a normal thing to have to type all this information like that? It's the only thing that is not good with this account. The pay is 8 cents per line. Thank you for your comments.
? 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.
Next they will charge you for the privilege of editing reports
This rate is an insult to even a newbie. What trashy companies are out there now? I hope management took a 75% paycut when they went to this program, as well. It sounds like they are totally unqualified to run a business.
Radiology preliminary reports
I need to hear from in-house radiology transcriptionists please. Once your report is typed, primarily on inpatients, do you send a preliminary copy of that to the patient's chart? Does your Radiologist have to read over all Radiology transcripts before signing and sending to the chart? Thanks for any info you can give.
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
Types of reports in radiology transcription
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.
We get paid $1.10 for radiology reports and my supervisor transcribes also sm
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.
how about looking for a company that pays radiology reports by report and not line? nm
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You need to charge for this extra service. Stat reports should be charged at a higher rate or per r
Never lose money. I have unlimited long distance and when my docs what things faxed, etc, I charge them per report to fax the document as well as charging them to transcribe it.
Editing Radiology Reports - Need info RE charging per report (Exam)
I am in the South - any suggestions on going rate for editing Radiology Reports per report (exam)? I have seen charging prices from $1.25 to $2.00. Thank you for any input, it is greatly appreciated.
Does this seem fair? To charge .16 per line - includes printed reports, copies on disk for one year
and delivery. I do travel twice a week to this office. Plus, at times I will fax or email the reports free of charge. I live in Southern California in an upscale area.
Thanks again! 
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!
Charge what the credit card companies charge when they don't get paid on time!!!!
Audio hour charge - what is fair rate to charge company?
Doubt you can charge 15 cpl for VR work to the docs - you can't even charge them 12 for straight
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you don't have to charge $60/HR - all you have to do is charge a good rate and then..
work smart, not hard. If you have a great dictator, charge him 14 cpl on a 65 char gross line, then set up your templates and word expanders, you can make $80/hr. But you need all three to work together, otherwise you might only be making $60/hr. Some people are just really good at what they do - shouldn't they make more if they are more productive?
I'd still charge by line, just charge a lower
rate, like maybe 8 cpl. Do you have to pickup and deliver work? You could also setup a one-month contract until you see how it goes and then you can figure out the best way to charge and go from there. You could also charge a flat rate per page and keep it fairly low.
One office I charge .12, another I charge $2.25 page--nm
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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
Your English teacher does not do medical reports. This is for medical reports.
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Okay well if you are going to charge 10 cpl..what do your MTs get?
Maybe they are looking out for the little people getting paid a little more?? I see a lot of aspects of this you haven't researched. Ask questions, learn from their decisions so you are better prepared next time.
how much do you charge?
What should I charge?
I've never solicited my own accounts before, but my fiance's sister called me yesterday asking if I'd be interested in transcribing some letters for the dermatologist she works for. I said sure, since I'd like to go all independent, and this is a good way to try it out. Only problem is, I'm not sure what to charge. I'll be using the doctor's transcriber (she uses tapes, and I don't have a tape player), and it isn't decided yet whether I'll be emailing the completed letters to her, or printing them myself. What would be an average rate?
Is there a law on this? Don't think there is; not sure. You should be able to charge whatever U w
What I Charge
I also work for an insurance company doing claim tapes. I charge $3.00 a page. My reports can vary anywhere from a few pages up to 25 pages, which I actually did last night (I don't think I've done any longer than that). I'm not sure if this helps or not. I use Tahoma 10 with the margins the same as what you're using.
I get 9 CPL for a nat'l, and charge 12 CPL...nm
I charge
12 cents per line, 65 character line. With HIPAA issues, don't forget better grab yourself a carrier that reports will fit in to take back--one that locks. This is very important in case you are in an accident taking their reports back. It happens.
charge them as much as you can sm
I would charge per gross line, that means every line counts, no matter what. Depends on the reports, but why not start with 12 cents a gross line. Don't under sell yourself. You'll be killing yourself for pennies. good luck.
What to charge for something like this?
I have had this account for 5 years now and they have made a change to the format of their report. The first page is basically a template with check boxes. The other three pages are figured out by 65 character count. Being that there isn't much I'm doing to the first page (checking maybe 5-8 boxes and adding little blurbs once in awhile), but I am printing this page out. Any ideas? I hope I'm making sense! Thanks much in advance.
mt-what to charge?
I work at a mental health clinic as a transcriptionist/records person. A coworker asked if I would be interested in making some extra cash by typing some documents for him and his buddies that are in college. I am interested but have no idea WHAT TO CHARGE? 1 cent per word? i have no idea please help.
-Gina
What to charge? Please sm...
I was approached by a family doctor to do some typing for his very small company. He indicated that there are 2 other doctors in his office. I am thinking about taking the offer, but I'm just not sure how much to charge them. I noticed on the job boards that MTs are now being paid on an average of 0.07 cpl. How much more of this would I need to charge in order to actually profit from doing this? I currently get paid 0.12 cpl at a company I am working for, so what would be appropriate for me to charge these doctors then? I'm so confused.
what to charge
no one is going to come out and answer this question for you. It all depends on where you live.. Call a local transcription company, make like you are a doctors office and see what their rates are.. call at least 5 of them and go inbetween.
What to charge for something like this?
I've been contacted about "putting together a training
outline, tips and tricks and materials for MTs moving into the Editor role."
I'd charge at least what I would lose in production spending time on this, but any idea of an hourly rate? The company is moving into a VR platform.
I charge
.10 a line but all my work is done over the internet. I open an e-mail and then e-mail the work back so it does not cost me anything extra. I haven't been doing this for very long, so I am probably not the one to be giving advice, but I did want to make sure you are putting all these expenses on your taxes. You can even log your driving time, these are just things I didn't know when I first began.
I charge 12 cpl as well.
I provide 48-hour turnaround. Instead of raising your rate, why not ask if you can pick-up every two days? I believe that some charge up to 14 cpl. It all depends on the practice.
So you charge ,12 cpl...(sm)
due to the fact that you have to compete with nationals that outsource overseas, right? Okay, what portion of that .12 cpl are you willing to pay a sub? Would you be willing to pay .10 cpl and still make at least .02 cpl AND keep your contracts happy? That's what I did. When I had my own contracts I was happy to get good and truly experienced transcriptionists who would sign non-competitive agreements and pay them almost as much as I got per line. I felt that "something was better than nothing". So, if I only got .02 cpl it was still better than losing client, driving myself nuts working all the time, and .02 cpl adds up after a while. Furthermore, it was more than I would make if I lost the client! Are you wiling to do that, pay your sub's a very good rate - cause if you are willing to do so there are many good transcriptionists willing to work for you (myself included)!
How much to charge
Hi!
I don't mind -- I just answered it when another MT was asking if $50 per audio hour was too low and I said yes, it was too low.
You generally charge per audio hour. I don't know what it takes other people, but I work on a 3:1 ratio, meaning 1 hour of audio takes me 3 hours to do. So I charge $75 an audio hour if it's not terribly complicated. Like I said in the other post, others charge $95 and I have even heard $115. I'm happy with it working out to $25 an hour, but I do spend additional time proofing it afterwards.
I like general because people don't seem to be as "stat" about things as in MT :) Sometimes the speaking is even nice and slow, like they are reading from a presentation so you just keep right up with it.
Diane
Have always seen charge more than $1 per min
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how should I charge?
I have been approached by a doc who wants me to take over doing his transcription. He is a face/eye plastic surgeon. Most of his stuff is all templates. The only thing I will actually have to type would be the DX and procedure and then insert the appropriate template. (He does have over 98 templates)
He wants me to give him a quote but I have no clue where to start. I normally charge by the line but this would not be fair since I am just inserting templates.
Should I charge by the page, # of reports, hourly, or what. He does about 15 cases per week and the reports average 3-5 pages (again much of it templates).
Does anyone have any experience with this. I want to give him an answer today.
Thanks!
-Ang.
how should i charge
Well thanks so much for the replies!
After a few e-mails with this doctor today. I have proposed to him a per page charge of $2.50 to start. I looked at his previous reports, took the average per line count and adjusted it a tad lower since it is mostly his template. This way there is no question about hourly rate. Like I said...I only have to type in the diagnosis and procedure performed. He then dictates which template out of the 98 that he has to insert. (Don't know why he can't do it himself but on well.. LOL)
Here is hoping that I don't regret this decision.
Thanks again for the input.
charge
I cannot say that I did persay but my girlfriend did. It worked for her. They made sure to send her check promptly.
What to charge?
Hello to all,
I need any and all info in regards to contracting. I have always been a subcontractor but have now been approached at working directly with 2 of my doctors. What should I charge?
Thanks in advance!
I charge $60 for a
60-minute voice file, so that's $1 per minute. You won't be shortchanging him or yourself and also, he will know ahead of time the exact cost of the job.
Have fun with it. I do quite a bit of work that is non-medical and love it.
I charge...
12 cent per 65 char line, and I'm thanking my lucky stars. 11 cents per line is good too. You could always go up a half cent if you're nervous about jumping up a whole cent.
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