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I pulled a report I did today. I get paid 65 characters.

Posted By: me on 2007-08-09
In Reply to: What would you do?....sm - Howie

At 65 characters it was 110 lines and at 55 it was 130.   If the 65 is employee status and there are other benefits that would be the one I would choose.  If you don't have benefits it would probably be 6 of one and half-dozen of the other.  


Sorry couldn't be more helpful.  Having to make a decision too.  One job pays more per line but no benefits, no bonuses.  The other job pays a little bit less but has incentives and good benefits.   Sounds like a no brainer but it is still hard to decide. 


I would look at how productive you could be.  I know you probably don't have any idea if you aren't familiar with the account.  I'd also look at the stability of the company.  There are no guarantees, but if there is a mom and pop company, versus a 300+ MT company, that may play a factor.  Check the boards on both companies (I'm assuming it is 2 different companies but maybe it is just pay scale difference) and see what others have said about them.  Tons of ESLs, hard to make lines, very inflexible with schedule, etc.  


You can take job #1, but there is no law that says you are there for the next 2 years and maybe job #2 will still be willing to hire you.  


 




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75 characters per line?? Today I called about a job
and the pay started at 7.5 cents a line ----- but 75 characters per line.  Has anybody heard of that before?  The job is acute care with high amount of ESLs.  What will they think of next? 
Pick a relatively short report and do a manual count of characters

including spaces if your company counts them.  Then divide the total by 65 or whatever your lines are defined as. If there is a discrepancy between your manual count and their systematic count, you have a problem. 


I did this recenty on ExText and find I am getting shorted about 1-2 lines per report. 


I received my line count report today. nm
nm
I'm paid by report...
make about $25/hr., and I think a year of radiology experience is plenty if you are really good. So go 4 it!
Do you get paid per report?
or hourly? If you get paid per report that would be easy to verify.
QAs are paid the same whether your report is
100% perfect or full of errors. We're not paid extra to find fault.

It's a waste of time & money for the company to keep her on QA this long, but it's not costing her anything.
paid by the report
I currently get paid by the report for radiology work. It has its ups and downs. I would say that it depends alot on the platform as well. The good side of being paid by the report is that any report over 2.5 minutes we get to add an additional report on top of that and we also get to add additional reports to a report that have one or more links(CT abdomen and pelvis). Personally I would not take a job that pays less than 1.20 for a radiology report. If that is the case I would say you would make more getting by the line. I hope this helps.
Being Paid by Report

I've got two firm offers from very reputable employers.  One is paid per report while the other is paid by the line.  One is Radiology, the other is multispecialty. 


I'd like to hear from some of the MTs here who are, or have been, paid by report for radiology.  I've heard horror stories about getting $1.10-1.35 per report, and having an entire shift filled with detailed CTs and MRIs with very few simple plain film studies.  Conversely, I can also see where if one were lucky enough to get a run of negative plain film studies, one could conceivably make a great deal of money. 


Being relatively new to subcontracting, I'd love some advice from the MTs here about what you feel is the most beneficial method of being paid. 


Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. 


being paid by report
I agree!!   I was offered $1.05 to $1.10 as an employee status...  
Anyone you sub for is going to report they paid you
When you do your taxes, the IRS could be alerted since the contractor you work for will write it off.  It's just not a good idea.  Why not send out resumes offering as needed services to different companies.  You might be surprised what you find. 
Did you ask for more if you were paid by the report? sm
I work for KS and have for a few years. If there is an account that does not have enough work or slows down, they always have more. I would give them a try. I know they are starting a few more accounts in the next few weeks; they have a lot of radiology!
Paid for the whole report and you're right about
why you'd likely be fired after the adjustment time if you're not making at least min wage.  The employer would need to supplement your income to bring you to at least min wage for your state.
Did everyone get paid today?
;
Has anyone at TT been paid by the new co. today?
m
Transhealth rad-paid by report or by line? sm
Anyone know?  Thinking about applying. 
You get paid for the whole line count in the report.

Only on QA do some companies (GRRR) pay for just a certain amount of lines or what you actually type in the blanks. 


VR is the same line count as text reports - and the whole report.  Hope this helps you.  You might want to check with your company to confirm though, lots of weird stuff going on with some of them;-)


It just depends on how long the report is. Are you paid by
nm
Futurenet AQ not paid by report any more? Going to line rate.


 


sucks


I have to say I disagree. QA is not paid to find faults with your report. sm
QA is paid to make sure the report is as close to 100% correct before the client sees it. However, I truly agree with you that anyone on QA hold for more than a month is beyond ridiculous. Where I work, I have seen people on hold for more than a month but it was truly because of poor transcription work and has nothing at all to do with the QA people.
Me too, although I wouldn't have objected if I had been paid today. :-) sm
Tuesday seems like a long time away ... waaaaah ... lol
Should be .. 1st is today, so we are paid the Monday after (I'm cashless too!) nm

Not paid for the WHOLE report? Classless highway robbery by that company. nm
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Note the above poster did not come back today and say she did not get paid.
I would like everyone who followed this thread to note this poster that had so many negative things to say about Cardioscribes, where she says she works, did not post she did not get her paycheck today. That should be the answer to the this whole thread. Also, I offered to help whoever was saying she does not get her line count or pay, and not one person contacted me. Again, I think that speaks volumes.
Cute :-) Yep, we got paid today. Now I can buy that popsicle I was dreaming about ... LOL nm

Any people at CardioScribes get paid today? When I got my invoice yesterday, sm

I kinda thought that meant I'd be paid today.  I know payday is not until tomorrow, but they usually are early, and I thought I'd check before I asked Raul about it.


 


Thanks.


No account has pulled out. They have a 100%
retention rate of accounts for the past 3 years.
I believe you, too. You couldn't have pulled that out of a hat. nm
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Be sure and get back to us after the rug gets pulled
It WILL happen, you know.
It's just a matter of when, not if.
This industry is headed towards a monopoly and total control by just a couple obscenely large MTSOs. We already know the aspirations of those companies is to dominate the entire MT field.
The way they'll accomplish that is by crushing all the little guys.
They were pulled into Warminster and some may now be in New York.
:
let's see how long it takes for THIS to get pulled

we have actually been told in the past to not post about them -- it's THAT BAD.  Womanizing horrible ignorant piece of crap company that doesn't give a rip about you.  If you like being treated like an idiot -- go for it!


 


Yes, Teresa and Beth pulled that one in!
xxxx
Same here. I pulled my monitor closer sm

Now I see that teeny print fine.


I pulled eve/night so that I could get work...sm
NADA NADA. Left after my 2-week training.
Oh yes...I pulled 25 echos in a row this morning
even though the work is always routed evenly to all MTs at my company.  Right.
Sounds like the trick MQ pulled
several years ago and enriched themselves immeasurably, leaving MTs in the lurch. (I know two who had to go bankrupt.) Were they punished? But Noooooo! Were they rich beyond their wildest dreams? Yeeeees.
The music industry has pulled this a few times, and
has it helped their image? NO

Has it stopped free file-sharing? NOT AT ALL.

Has the industry recovered yet from that mistake? NO.

The music industry is still afloat because they had to CHANGE THE WAY THEY DO BUSINESS.

Who knows - maybe this un-American bully-company might be starting the wheels rolling in that direction for MT, as well.
I'm sure this will be pulled but I need to say that MTSOs are treated a lot worse than MTs someti

WE take the risk to run a company.  WE get accounts to keep people busy.  WE pay more to our MTs than ourselves.  WE have to keep up on transcription, drugs, equipment, grammar rules, individual accounts, individual doctor preferences, business practices, tax laws, employment laws, etc.


WE have to pay for QA for MTs that do not know how to look up a word or phrase.  WE have to pay to hire and then be burned.  WE have to pay bank fees, lawyers, accountants, clerical staff, etc.  WE have to put on a smile for customers who don't deserve it because we don't want to lose an account because then our MTs would not have any work.  WE have to put up with crap from MTs who have every excuse in the book from mysterious illnesses to mysterious DSL/phone/electric outages. 


WE get bashed if someone is let go because their work is not up to par or if an account goes to voice recognition or goes with a company in India to save a buck.


WE get bashed if someone is hired and does not work out.


WE get bashed for requiring people to provide equipment, phones, etc OR we get bashed for providing all that but paying too low.


Take a look in the mirror.  If you have what it takes to get your own accounts, invoice, file all tax/employment/sales paperwork with your state and the federal government, can wait to pay your bills until the account has paid you, discount invoices for TAT that your employees do not meet or quality that is not perfect, deal with customers that nickel and dime you to death, give up time off because no one can cover for you, give up holidays so that your employees can spend time with their families, give up hot meals as someone always seems to drop the ball as the day goes on, negotiate to keep customers as each contract expires in an industry where prices are going down not up, then do it.


If you can do better than us, be my guest. 


Yes, some big wigs at some of the huge companies make a lot of money, but for the most part, most MTSOs make a good living, not great.  If I put my hours end to end, I put in the equivalent of two full time jobs.  If I worked two full time jobs for someone else, I would make more than I do running a service.


Before you b**tch and moan about the company you work for any more, ask yourself this question --- why are you still in this field?  The answers are easy --- it is a good field, MTs make excellent money for working at home, most without master's degrees or doctorates, there is some flexibility, opportunity to advance, ability to learn something every day, satisfaction knowing that an accurately transcribed report can make someone's treatment more effective or save a life (rather than having inaccurate medical records) and much, much more. 


The average teacher starts in the 20s, the average accountant in the 30s, the average computer person in the 30s.  We have potentially unlimited income and start in the 20s and move up rapidly.  Several MTs in our company topped 100k this year.  They would never have that opportunity in a different field.


We need to stop bashing each other.  It is not MTSOs vs MTs.  It should be working together as a team.  Teams that don't play well together do not succeed.


I live in CT. I pulled up the hospital list for my state
If you have any leads, feel free to send me an e-mail.  TY!
When nm guessed correctly, the moderator pulled that post too.
She guessed with a line from Romeo and Juliet without giving a name and that post was pulled too.
Looks like the original post got pulled, too. Too many of us looking for "the" place to work,
s
Funny about sending work out to India. I was curious and pulled up their
website, it says they NEVER send work outside the U.S.
He is going to pay 8.5 for 70 characters

which is more than 9 for 65.  There is definitely something wrong with his math.  If he paid 9 for 70 then it might be the same as 8.5 for 65.  


 


65 characters
I've ALWAYS been told it means characters AND spaces.
and which characters... sm
print in white exactly, I wonder?

TIA
Lines are 65 characters.....
Not based on the actual line you see on the page.
black characters?
Sounds like no spaces counted to me.
I love those little characters! sm
Where does everybody get those? I have to have them! I love the pot disturber! Too cute! LOL!
I have got to get with the times! (Yeah, it was a good laugh, huh?)
55 characters with no spaces
Using the Apex platform, I found this calculation to be a major rip off.  Not sure why.
Maybe it's not 65 characters per line???

1600 lines is a lot.  It doesn't mention vacation time though does it?


55 is better--less characters for a line,
therefore more lines UNLESS it is black character only--i.e. not counting spaces. Some companies do it this way instead of paying for 65 character line (spaces included).
To the IC's is 10 cpl based on 65 characters a good
rate for an IC, even with having to pay your own taxes, social security, vacation, sick time and all.   How does this all pan out in the long run.  I'm a single parent and tired of all the crap I've taken the past 28 years as an employee - but too afraid to step out and work as an IC for fear of not being able to meet ends, covering for my own insurance and all.  Any and all feedback would be appreciated.