Honey, if you expect to be PAID to do this job, you still

Posted By: should have known better! on 2006-03-25
In Reply to: HNP - Nichole

There is no way to confuse H&P with HNP.

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You expect me to sit there and let someone
You are sorely mistaken. I posted here to find some sort of decent answers, which a few were kind enough to post above without being rude (imagine that!) but I most certainly will not be posting here anymore. Seems like most of you only seem to want to argue or bring people down trying to come into this field. Sad.

If you are lucky you can expect 6 cpl. nm

Honey, honey, honey.....?

Honey, that was not a job interview
can figure out how to achieve their goals. You should send them a bill for the advice you gave.
wow. The nerve of them!

Expect a Sharp Upturn for EMR Systems
Hello, I understand the Commission on Systemic Interoperability has finished the first draft of the criteria, and that it will be completed by June of this year. Once these are published, many more hospitals will feel ready to shop for/implement their EMR software. Right now there are more hospitals going to EMR than clinics (I think), because larger systems get put in place first. However, clinics will follow and will be incented by the networks they belong to, to install the same or compatible EMR systems, by those hospitals/networks providing some of the startup costs for the systems.

See
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/healthit/comsystinter.html for commission overview.

I could post more links if there is interest.

so sorry to pop your little self-righteous bubble honey

but I'll bet $100 and my 1099 I made WAY more than you did last year. If you want to play smug, I'll play smug too.

Honey, I hate to burst your bubble, but
poor sound quality and bad dictators are reality in the real world of transcription, always has been and always will be. If you cannot do these dictations, you will not be able to pass hiriing tests, much less be able to keep a job. If the schools give out diplomas without assuring these people are ready for this type of work, then I feel very sorry for these students who spend a lot of money to take their course.

expect a 1 to 4 ratio of dictation minutes to transcription time
do you really expect low level QA when someone's life may hang in the balance? I could go on but.....

I think you can expect to get 5 to 7 cents per 65-character line as a newbie. I started at 7 cpl as
nm

Wait until the older ones retire? What an illogical concept, honey.
Why not doing something proactive to remedy your situation NOW...such as go inhouse and work for your experience! lol

THEN, you will truly have the experience you need to be hired to work from home.

I don't blame companies for not hiring newbies. You really do not have an insight yet as to what all this job will entail. Believe me, you NEED the inhouse one-on-one experience for 2-3 years FIRST before you try working from home.

There's another one where you DO get paid... says

see link

I wish I could get paid this way again
When I first started out all I had to do was type the document, open up the information and get my line count, so much easier, even a return was a line. I had been able to keep it that way up until now where it is a 65 character line, with spaces at least though. I think I would definitely make more money with just plain old straight lines.

You must have already paid, huh?
AHP is a huge rip-off and the complaints outweigh the praises.

You paid for this?
David, I hope you're not saying that you PAID for a course wherein the teachers or moderators do not reply to your questions by email.

It might be time to go further up the food chain at that school.

Not getting paid well at first?
If you choose the right school, you won't have to be in the position of "probably not gettin paid well at first." You won't have to "work your way up," either.

Doesn't it make more sense to choose a reputable school with a history of placing students directly into decent jobs at regular pay rates?

Going with a crummy school because it's cheaper . . . or being blinded because it's more expensive . . . makes no sense. If you can't work at all, or you have to take a job at low pay just to get your foot in the door, you've wasted your time in the program and you are continuing to waste it.

I don't know what to think about people who encourage others to do the same.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why students continue to ask about and enroll in these horrible "schools." Isn't the massive amount of negative information about them enough to steer you away?

I think getting paid by the minute might be better because

lots of times you get the docs who will carry on a conversation in the middle of the dictation, or who will lay the phone down to thumb through the chart, though I have no personal experience with being paid this way.

Man you got ripped if you paid that much to get an
AA degree. Shouldn't have cost you more than $2,000.00 and even though is a stretch.

I am not a paid affiliate
and have never benefited from the school except a good education and a great job that I got right after graduation. Yes, CS prepared me well!!!

get paid hourly
best bet is get a job locally that pays hourly. you make more money that way. in 1976, i made $9/hr. now i make $17/hr. when i edit, i make $23/hr (boston)

What a crock. Are you being paid to
push those two schools? Go ask experienced MTs on the main board which schools they went to.

If I get paid 7 cents per 65-Character.....
by electonic character count, do you think that would be with spaces or without?

Anyone? Not sure!

Thanks!!

Is Multispecialty Clinic paid the same?

Or is it less? I've done H&P, Consultation, and Discharge Summaries. Just no Op notes.

Thanks for you help.

good luck getting paid
I work there and twice they shorted my pay and my check didn't even come this time. They don't have direct deposit, just one very hateful payroll clerk who acts like it just kills her to answer a question.

MedLine has paid internships
after going through their program and you are qualified to work on real dictation jobs because the school is owned by a med. trans. company. It is an excellent school, I am going to it, after wasting money on TRSI's school which was horrible. They called their advanced transcription "internship" which wasn't an internship at all, and no one answered my questions or helped me and I ended up leaving there knowing nothing. Anyway see if Medline can answer your questions.

Better paid healthcare position to MT here...big adjustment, but it's...

entirely worth it. The lower pay (at least for a while) versus the stress you feel as an RN - only you can decide, but in the long run I'll go with MT any day.

Also, if I were you, I would go with M-Tec rather than CS. It is a much more comprehensive program, and you will be much more prepared. Yes, it is a bit more expensive, but you will have many, many job offers when you graduate and can pick what suits you best.

I paid medical insurance claims
for about 17 years, so while this did help me tremendously with the terminology, etc., I don't think there is any way you can do this without the proper training. I knew a lot about the medical field, but it still doesn't compare to what you learn when schooling to be an MT

School gets paid for intern work
I now know they are paid for each report I do, supposedly to help cover the cost of "interning" students. The client company benefits by having reports already proofed that do not have to go through their QA and the school gets paid. I have started sending out resumes and taking online tests. Hopefully, I will get a paying position soon.

That's a first for me. I've never heard of an IC being paid hourly.
I wonder if that breaks any laws about ICs? I'm not an expert at all on IC laws, but I wouldn't be surprised if being paid hourly doesn't make you an employee. You might want to post that question in the subject line on the main board.

I have been paid by the dictation minute, I prefer it ...
for the reasons you mentioned. On a couple of occasions, the recording "continued" for about 15 to 20 minutes after the dictation was done, and because I had to continue to listen, I got PAID for those minutes!

Are interns paid for the work they do? (see inside)
I see there is a fee for this program. If one has to pay a fee, and do work without pay, it doesn't sound like such a great deal for the newbie.

The problem with affiliates promoting the school is they get PAID to go it.

If you file jointly it doesn't matter who paid for them, it all comes
from the same pot anyway.

Nevermind...not paid. In fact, website says they charge
a $99 enrollment fee. That means this company is getting paid for work that is done for free by newbie MTs. Yikes!

If school is AHDI-approved, there are paid apprenticeship programs available.

I happened upon a company that offers paid internships
The company is in California. If you go to their website and click on the tab entitled "Join our Team," you'll find more info.

I'm not affiliated with the company and know nothing about them, just happened upon it while job searching for myself and though new MTs or graduates might be interested.

I hope you're being paid a decent wage and not being
taken advantage of, which happens a lot.

Is your internship paid? Can you stay with it and get experienced and apply for an at-home job
s

Most people lucky enough to be paid hourly worked on-site first.
Otherwise those jobs are very rare.

grammar, honey, grammar...
Not at all intending to say I was better than you. Merely pointed out that grammar is an integral part of MT and one area in which you are handicapped. I felt my post was respectful, informative and fair. However, feel free to sink your two grand into MT schooling and then try to find a job. I've been at this for over twenty years and I'm telling you right now-- you won't find one...