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MT jobs at hospitals pay $15 +incentive for experience

Posted By: me, too on 2007-04-07
In Reply to: even if you are only doing 1400 lines a day at 8 cents a line that is still $15 an hour... - passing through

I know, I was just offered one, but it won't work without access to high speed internet, which I cannot get for probably another six months. The MTs I used to work with there are making $15 an hour (experienced) plus an incentive (which they tell me they make almost daily because they're always on the same work). A previous co-worker told me she made 31K working 4 days a week last year and also has a 403B AND a pension after 5 years. Plus gets two long weekends off a month, sick days, vacation days, holidays (and big incentive when she has to work a holiday, plus gets the day of later).

The area is lower midwest/upper south, so it's not inflated for area, either.


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    My experience, teaching hospitals have a lot of ESL
    x
    Most hospitals will. Pay your dues (work cheaper to get experience.)

    I have 18 years experience with very large, well-known teaching hospitals. (sm)
    and I went to TT in October with the big hiring push. Yep, there are lots of ESLs on my account, but no more than I've ever had on any previous account I've worked on. Most of the ESLs I'm getting are quite good, in my opinion. I can handle them. The one doc that gives me the most grief is actually EFL. He's just lazy and mush-mouthed. As for the sound quality, I haven't had a single problem with sound quality.
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    Some people can deal with the ESLs, some can't. All you can do is try. We don't all fit into the same work situations.
    With only 3.5 years' experience, I also have 2 jobs
    at 9 cpl. I guess I am lucky, but I have been offered 6 and 7 cpl and turned both offers down.  A couple of years ago, after posting my resume on a site, I received a phone call from a man with a very heavy accent offering me 1 cpl to edit.  I laughed in his ear and said, Absolutely not.
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    unqualified MTs are entering this field. I think your situation is unfair, almost 4 years is sufficient. I do understand, however, that the 1 year experience for complex accounts, workpools, etc. is no longer realistic in this competitive profession. I feel sorry for the new MTs entering this profession. Those of us with experience have seen such a decline in the profession just over the past five years. I believe it is the combination of unqualified MTs entering the profession without the proper education and on the job experience, in addition to the overseas MTs being contracted to work with US companies. Very sad. Our legislature has to step up to the plate, but everyone needs to speak up.
    Bad experience at previous jobs does not justify
    x
    Have you tried ads on Monster Jobs and Career Builder w/your experience? nm
    s
    Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
    for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
    It is not the hospitals on a short TAT it is what MQ wants to make the hospitals very happy with

    them. I would assume the accounts are on 12, 24 or 48 TAT but wouldnt they love having their work back no sooner than it is dictated.


    Cherrypicking is when you work from a pool of jobs and being able to reject the worst jobs to those
    ,
    Monster Jobs and Career Builder usually have a few path jobs. nm
    s
    Don't think any do except for those in-house jobs. Some QA jobs are paid hourly. nm
    s
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    Are MTs that are looking for jobs finding good jobs right now with everyone looking or is it
    getting more difficult to find a good job.  I am most interested in jobs for experienced MTs with more than 10 years service.  I wonder if it is better to put a resume on or just keeping applying or what is the best way to go about this.
    Look at all the jobs on the jobs boards.
    You can find a job and won't have to apply for unemployment. You would be surprised how many companies need qualified MTs! Go get 'em and get 'em now!

    Don't wait until the 11th hour. Too many needs to put your hat in the unemployment slot.

    What they lost is our gain.

    you only get incentive pay for
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    As of Nov 1, the incentive on
    straight MT has been done away with, no shift or weekend or holiday extras either, that is what I was told. 
    Incentive pay
    Are there any companies out there that offer incentive pay?
    incentive
    I was told that anything over 14,000 lines every 2 wks qualifies for incentive. (Edited lines count 1/2 of transcribed lines).
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    incentive
    It was for the editing platform. I believe it is a one time deal to encourage people to improve their hourly editing line.

    Check the company forum, there are posts about it there.
    TT needs to do away with that QA incentive
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    I smell lawsuits big time. Just wait.

    I have been at TT for over 2 years and have never been audited. I was off QA in 3 days when I started and I have never heard another word from them. You would think they could at least audit somebody once a year. They get you off QA ASAP and forget all about you.

    Where is the quality in this company?
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    I can only speak for myself when I say I have never guessed to avoid sending a report to QA. If I am not sure, I blank it. I listen over and over to try my best to get it. I would not take the chance of putting something erroneous in a medical record intentionally; I wouldn't want errors in my own medical records.
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    I work PT for Webmedx and I find the incentives very hard to reach. I think they are more for full-timers, personally and would love to see some offer for us part-timers.
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    What is the incentive for OT with them? nm
    x
    No. I make incentive also.
    x
    holiday incentive pay
    ...is something I'd like to see
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    There, the more lines you produce per hour, the higher your pay! Highest goes to 300 lph at 10.5 cents a line
    DSG Incentive plan
    Can someone tell me what the incentive plan is for DSG?
    Incentive plan

    I don't have the figures handy, but there are two incentives.


    The first is getting a 0.25- 1.0 increase per line depending on how many lines you type in the two week period, again, I dont have the paper handy but I think the first incentive starts at 5001 per pay period.  Don't quote me on it.


    The other one is a bonus given every four weeks if your line count is over a certain amount starting at $20 and going up, and I believe the first count you have to exceed is 10001 in a four week period


    incentive plan
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    They have a very good incentive
    plan, even better than MQs old incentive plan. 
    They don't pay production incentive?
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    I know. It seems like they could offer a little more incentive...sm
    I understand and hear they are great, but how are they so great when they don't offer benefits?  I guess benefits isn't needed by everyone, but I think most by the majority...Wish we had some insight about them even considering to offer more for their employees.
    Less than 1 cpl for line incentive. nm
     
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    Are you talking about production incentive or is there an incentive for being compliant with your schedule?

    I believe I understand the differential for shift incentive, and I work mostly evenings anyway.
    Does KS have an incentive program? nm

    No, its a bonus or incentive
    A very nice way to say thank you for doing your part to help the environment. I'm happy as it went to help pay my taxes on the car.
    Thx. Do they have incentive or bonuses?
    nm
    This is just incentive to get you to sign with this co.
    x
    Be that as it may, it IS incentive to sign on.
    x
    Why not 1 job with more lines for more incentive? nm
    x
    New WMX bonus incentive
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    Yes they do have incentive tiers. SM
    5501 to 6500 0.0025 more
    6501 to 7500 0.0050 more
    7501 to 8500 0.0075 more
    8501 to 9500 0.0100 more
    9501 to 11000 0.0150 more
    11001 and above 0.0200 more
    Yes, the incentive was based on

    number of minutes dictated/transcribed.  For example, if the report I loaded was 2 min/50 seconds and the incentive was 25 cpm-- I would get an extra 50 cents (give or take for the 50 seconds).  We have to keep track of all the minutes and there is usually a required minimum of 500 minutes that you have to transcribe in order to be eligible.  There are also time constraints -- like it only runs for 4-6 hours.  You also have to maintain your commitment for the rest of the pay period.  That's the only type of incentive I've had my account and they're not very often -- I think they ran it twice (maybe three times) in the last 6 months. 


    I hope your accounts pick up soon. 


    Question for incentive pay and QA

    I work for a company that offers incentive pay for high quality with having your reports sent to QA.  I've been there about 3 months and am beginning to believe this is not achievable.  First of all, they never give feedback on QA and if you ask they make you feel like it's a problem.  How can I increase my QA level if I am not given the opportunity to learn from my mistakes?  Any time I get close to going over my required line count and get close to becoming eligible for higher rate of pay, they start assigning me the worst ESLs I've ever heard.  What is it with these companies?  Glad I was offered a position outside the home and outside of transcription and will be starting part time in another week.  Keeping my fingers crossed that it can turn out full time.