suggest offering a line count lower than....nm

• cost of transcription - Ruth
  • What to charge doctors. - Jann
  • I ask the physicians! Haven't had one yet - JoV
  • Charge what you can to get the account. sm - small MTSO
  • Do a search - Patti
  • charge them as much as you can sm - mrr
  • suggest offering a line count lower than....nm - the nationals charge.......nm
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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?

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!!!

is there a way to include the headers/footers on reports in the line count program free download here in MT? 

I am only a year into MT and have been wondering something for a while.  Do most MT's relisten to the dictation to edit it once they are very familiar with the dictators?  I have been tracking my errors when editing and have almost none and I thought how much that would improve my line count if I did not have to relisten to every one.  I'm thinking about cutting that back to just the difficult dictators.  The QA people are happy with my work.  Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. 

I don't know how to figure this out so...which is better- .085 per line at 55 characters without spaces or .08 per line at 65 characters with spaces?

Thanks

I have worked for some with that program and they had it set not to count spaces and not to count headers. 

Other places I have worked they had it set differently. 

When a company buys the Dictaphone system they are trained to set it up to count lines, spaces, characters, etc. 

What exactly does 500 lines per day equal out to (how many hours per day, reports, etc)? I have worked for one clinic and I get paid a nice monthly salary. 

Thanks 

I have worked in Meditech for Rad / Pathology / and Medical Records.  I have helped write transcription specifics for Meditech........ 

As far as the line count in Meditech, it has no reason to it really.  However, it does count higher than any other programs I have compared it to.  I am sure I knew at one time how the line count was programmed, but it has been  27 years since I knew that information.  Now, I just type and take the line count it gives.  If you are paid through Meditech line count, count yourself lucky.  I do. 

As far as initials, yes if someone edits your report, as long as they do not go and manually change your initials to theirs after editing a report (and this does happen when they want to print the report, some transcriptionists do not know to leave the identifer alone and just print under the typist ID instead of changing to theirs) they will get credit for the report.  We use to require the report be given back to the original Transcriptionist . IF that was not possible, the second transcription would document to the Supervisor the report data, job #, patient, etc. and there would be an adjustment made to the line count at PPE.  The lines would be split.  OR, the supervisor would make the changes, additions, corrections to the report, and the original trans would get the credit. 

 Maybe this will help a little.

I recently took a job where you do your line count in Word.  I am supposed to count with spaces, which is really easy, and then I divide that by 65, but if you are also supposed to count headers, footers, how do you do that.  When I put a checkmark in the box to count headers and footers, the count is no different than if I didn't check it.  I must be missing a step.  Help!  Thanks.