I don't push like I did years ago - I usually get about 1300-1400 (sm)
Posted By: Old TT on 2007-08-21
In Reply to: I usually get 1800 to 2000 - NM
If I push, I can get about 1600.
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Not by the line but 1400-1500 radiology reports. 2-1/2 years. nm
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Escription - Push push push then.....nothing
I am becoming increasingly frustrated at how these companies that do Escription or any other VR program for that matter, take on new accounts that are backlogged and they push and push you to get on there and get it caught up. Then when everyone is humming along, all of a sudden, no work. How can anybody make a living with this kind of abuse?
Yes, 10 cpl for the first 6 pay periods if you meet the 1300 lines, sm
8 cpl if you do not. After the 6 pay periods, if you become an employee, then the rates change. I think 10 cpl then was only for 3rd shift.
I just wanted a part-time position, but the 10 cpl sounded rather attractive. Of course, it doesn't matter how much someone pays if you don't have the work or can't make the lines. 
Thanks again for your input. We'll see if I even passed the test.
I do 1200-1300 lines in 5-6 hours. I am not very fast
though. My fingers are getting old :)
Uhoh .. does that mean it is difficult to make the 1300 lines per day sm
required for the 10 cpl? I was in high hopes ... sigh.
Thanks so much for your help/input.
OOOPS! Major typo there! It should be 1200-1300/mo.
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I make 1300 per month 10 hours per week (IC) extra job
There's not a push for VBC.
Phoenix MedCom I believe was one of the companies that tried it, and they're back to paying a regular 65-character line. The only reason anyone would change to VBC at this point is to try to weasel a bigger profit. We are on computers with line counting software, so all you do is enter your parameters. It's not beneficial in anyway to set it up to NOT count spaces. This whole thing is just silly and yet another way MTSOs are trying to pull one over. Luckily, the reputable ones are not even DISCUSSING this horrible idea.
Please don't try to push transcription for MW.
First of all, you must be new. It is impossible to get the lines because the work does run out each day. Now, why would I want to transcribe for MW at 8-1/4 cents per line? Do you think MW is the only place there is to work? There are still companies out there where quality does still matter!
I have enjoyed working for MW up to this point and I have one of the best supervisors going, but I have more respect for myself then to continue to stay here and work for $8 per hour, cleaning up trash, and running out of work so that it is impossible to get the incentive.
Just push tab instead of using mouse. NM
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Exactly. Why the sudden push to VR?
Unless the company is in financial trouble. We never know because they never tell us anything. This is the only place we can ever find out information.
Whatever it is, I suspect it is time to move on...
That's what QA is for. No one is allowed to push
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Its counterproductive to push VR
What are they thinking? They push VR, they sell VR. Client was happy with the status quo, and so were the MTs, but now the client gets to thinking, and they research VR on their own, and they buy Powerscribe, the docs do their own editing and presto, they no longer need Webmedx at all. Smart move guys! Brilliant!
How about concentrating on recruiting and KEEPING clients for a change, instead of this obsession with productivity? If all the clients leave due to getting sold on VR, typing nothing really fast cannot be very profitable.
1100-1400 lines/day?...sm
Try getting your facts straight before you decide to shoot down a company. Keep on wandering and you may find some unlucky company who would love to have your attitude.
Pay 8 cpl w/spaces for 1100 lpd, 8.5 cpl for 1400 lpd. nm
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Hey, I do have a life, ya know. To do 1100-1400
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That's why we need to push HARD to tax offshoring.
True, but why should anyone have to push themself
to earn the cruddy half of a half of a half a cent 'incentives' you think are so wonderful just so they can start earning the cpl their experience should be paid from the start.
WMX is a joke with their offers. I turned them down after hearing I passed their level 4 and ESL tests and was only being offered 7 cpl to work their hardest accounts.
I'll stick with my part time job at FN for 10 cpl for every line I type and not worry about being micro-managed.
Experienced MTs should stop selling themselves short by accepting such low offers attached to glorified incentives. There are places out there that offer better cpl to start.
Sounds like push come to shove.
And I am glad you shoved back. I wish more MTs would start doing that. When an MT (like myself) has to sit at a computer from 6:30 a.m. until 5:00, 8:00, and sometimes 11:00 just to make a living, and sometimes just to meet the minimum, it is push come to shove time. I stood up to my employer about this and I was laid off. I simply refused to do it anymore. I would not take PTO when there was no work. That PTO was earned by ME to use as I pleased. We were told to clock in and out, in and out as work was available. I checked with the Labor Board in their state, who said it was like asking a sales clerk to clock out if there were no customers in the store. They have the right to change your shift, but not make you keep clocking in and out for hours on end, month after month. I told my AM I wanted third party involvement because this was going to stop. I told them to give me work or let me go. They let me go, paying a nice severance, my PTO, and cooperated with my unemployment income until I found a new job. It took 2 weeks, I make more money, and the work is quite steady. I too do not recommend issuing ultimatums unless you are ready for the consequences. I wanted my life back and it has actually taken me a couple of months to let the stress go, and I wish I had done it sooner.
ProScript only 8 cpl for 1100-1400 lines a day, THEN you go to 8.5 cpl. nm
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1400 lpd over 10 days? How easy is that to do with all the ESLs there? nm
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In 2005, they were offering 8 cpl up to 1400 lines a day. Over that,
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Transtech has straight typing but do push for VR
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it was NEMT and I didn't push anyone out of the running
DUH!
Based on my past experience, I think they will push everyone...
to be employees so they can lower your cpl rate. Once the company I worked for started pushing employee status, they made it miserable for those of us who wouldn't take the 2 CPL pay cut to be an employee, i.e., not mailing out checks and saying if we were employees, we could have direct deposit, etc.
Doesn't AHDI also push E&O insurance?
Sounds to me like they are just trying to make more money off the MTs.
I agree with the other poster that it is the corporations that get sued, not the employees. Why spend a lot of money suing someone that doesn't have a dime to their name (the MT)? You don't. You go after the corporation with the large pockets.
The day the first MT gets sued over something like this is the day I get out. Why would any of us risk our financial future for a job that pays squat?
Dunno. Recruiter told me 8 cpl w/sp. for 1100 lpd, 8.5 cpl if you do 1400 lpd. nm
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ETrans doesn't hit 9 cpl until you're at 1400 lines a day. nm
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Don't know but last year offered 8 cpl w/sps from 1100-1400 lpd. Then went to 8.5 if consistently
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even if you are only doing 1400 lines a day at 8 cents a line that is still $15 an hour...
How many jobs are you going to get outside of the home making $15 an hour, especially in this economy and most parts of the country? That is only 175 lines an hour and most nationals expect at least 150 an hour, so that is not that much of a push. If you do 200 lines an hour, or 1600 lines a day, look at the raise and that is $16 an hour. This is also only making 8 cents a line, which by the time you are making over 1300 lines a day you probably are getting some sort of incentive, at least a lot of companies you do, and that would push this number up even more.
I used to be a graphic designer for many years and to this day pay for a good designer is only $12 to $14 an hour and you have to commute to the job, so how is it not realistic to make this type of money. I do not see where your logic is and if you are making so bad then maybe it is time to re-look at your profession and find something that is more a fit to you and make the money you deserve. I just do not see how making a minimum of $14 an hour is so unrealistic. Geez.
No flyer, but in 2005, they were only paying 8 cpl until you hit 1400 lpd. Any mention of
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Last year offering 8 cpl w/spcs on 1100+ lpd, 8.5 cpl for 1400+ lines. nm
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NO probs for me except when I push on wrong pedal and can't figure out why no one is speaking, lo
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not to mention, this feels like a push to make this just a part-time
job because it seems to be happening already. My partner drives a school bus and they do that to the drivers, they only allow them to work so-many hours a week, with absolutely NO benefits, other than the few the union has gotten them, and the bit higher pay scale. My partner also has had the union fight for his job many times especially when new managers would come in and right away want to 'clean house', get rid of the higher paid, senior drivers. It costs him 37 dollars a month though for 10 months and that is a drag too but in the long run, he does have some protection and the union is only as strong as its members. they are also in bed with management most of the time but these managers are usually nasty, aggressive, and would rather just hire their friends and family, and that is one thing I appreciate the union for, if nothing else...
you have to have an advocate - someone has to have our best interest in mind if we are ever to keep our jobs...
Offered 8 cpl w/sp on 1100 lpd & 8.5 cpl on 1400 lpd. Bonuses on production for statutory emps.
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I average 1200-1400 lines per day with a national, and am only getting around 600-800 lines per day.
It's been this way since the day before Thanksgiving. I've been doing this for almost 30 years now, and more often than from Thanksgiving until the new year is the slowest time of the year. I have some months where I am swamped with up to 2000 lines per day. I stash that little extra money, and take advantage of a handful of extremely slow days this time of the year to actually cook dinner, decorate for Christmas, or do Christmas shopping. I actually anticipate this slow time every year and have grown to enjoy the breathing time. Any time I have attempted to pick up extra work with another company to supplement these slow times, the minute I get adjusted to the new accounts, etc. I have no time to finish all of my work because my full time job with national gets slammed again. Hang in there if you can, and hopefully your work will pick up significantly around New Years.
I talked to them today. They want 3 years in a hospital or 5 years combination sm
hospital and at home or clinic and at home. For radiology, they want 3 years full time radiology. I thought they were very nice and I have a few friends that work for them and are happy. The pay seems average to high for what I am seeing now. I think they are 0.08 per line or 1.08 for radiology. Beats what I will have with the new MQ program.
Honda is 11 years old, 190,000 miles . Toyota was 15 years old and 279,000 superb
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I worked on site for many years. I've been doing this for 10 years... sm
I've worked on site, at home, for small MTSOs, for nationals, for hospitals. I've been paid per line, per minute, and per hour. I've been an MT and a QA. I have ALWAYS worked weekends and ALWAYS worked nights for the shift differential because MTs can't survive on 6 or 7 cents a line. At least I can't and I type 105 wpm.
I've BEEN dedicated from day 1, sister, so you are barking up the wrong tree.
15,000 lines per pay period. 8 years with KS, 6 years on this account! nm
Not going anywhere else!
30 years - this WAS my career. The last few years you guys have ruined it.
You work 9-5? Big deal. I work more than you do. I bet I work harder too. Treat US with respect, lady!
Don't talk to us like that and don't expect us to kiss your feet. Kiss ours for a change!
See if you'll be producing more after 30 years of MT'ing and at 50+ years old.
I don't think so. My income increased every year also, until I reached age 50 and 30 years of MT'g, been downhill ever since.
It wasn't tough 5 years ago. Or 10 years ago, yet
How to you spell
G-R-E-E-D ???
All the shifty, dishonest, greedy pigs in this country belong in JAIL.
Did MTfor 10 years; QA for 2 years and now
doing editing of speech/voice recognition. I find all three to be very different. MT you start with a blank page or a template, QA you have the whole document and you need to give a good quick read and check for correct name, MRN, formatting, and all blanks, etc., and if you know the MT you do not necessarily need to give the whole document voice to typed - editing is a whole 'nother thing. From what I have seen so far - you have a document and you cannot count on anything being correct - you need to change almost everything in some cases - which is more difficult than a blank sheet as there is a lot of deleting and it is confusing. It can be helpful because some of the medical words are in there and some of the drugs can be correct - and although I have found easier on the wrists some days - still very, very difficult. You must match exactly voice to type because you cannot count on anything to be correct - JMHO
I think it just boils down to years and years of
If you kick a dog often enough, it's going to not only turn on you, but other dogs as well. Even though I made more money as an in-house MT, our managers were the worst. All greedy, self-serving women who lied, cheated, and made their way up the management ladder by stepping on those of us who worked under them. They created hostility, distrust and ill will in the office by pitting MT against MT (I suppose they figured it would keep the MT's from turning on THEM!), and the suspicion it bred created a hostile workplace like no other. I finally couldn't take it anymore and quit to work at home, for less than half the money. I'm lucky - I have an employer that at least treats me well, even though the pay stinks. But from what I've read here, that isn't the norm at all. So it's little wonder so many at-home MT's are ready to chew someone's head off. They're tired of being lied-to, cheated on line counts, disrespected, and at the same time expected to produce more and more work, with little to no mistakes. So it's little wonder we're all a mite cranky.
Some of us have been at MDI for years and years. Why should we have to start all the way at the bot
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2 years ago
I worked as a statutory employee about 2 years ago and quit after about 6 months or so because I got a better offer. The people were nice but I ran out of work a lot. Also they still have me on their mailing list as a stat employee. Obviously they still don't realize that I haven't worked there in almost 2 years!
4-1/2 years for me too nm
9 years.
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Over 7 years, OTI
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18 years.
I have no idea what is happening for others or new plans or anything.
I've just gotten started. I didn't ask about any of that -- I just know what I was given.
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