Depends if there is much work or not... sm
Posted By: Anne on 2009-05-19
In Reply to: Hourly pay versus production pay - Sim
I work for a local hospital. I was production, then went to hourly because I typically would have 4-5 hours per day with no work and they wanted someone available. Radiology and ER are no longer dictated for us.
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Depends on who you work for
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I think it depends on where you work..(sm)
If u work for a hospital and work at home like a lot of MTs I know do, they make out okay with an hourly rate. But made more when the hospitals paid incentives. But overall your right about the testing. Our hospital has mandatory monthly meetings, QA'd every month and productivity assessment. I guess it just depends on what your willing to put up with.
Depends on who you work for...
I have been reading a lot about this topic lately. It seems to depend on who you work for. I work at home for a large clinic and I absolutely love it. I get together with a group of ladies I work with once a month and we have department parties, meetings,etc. Without that contact I know for sure I would feel exactly the same as you.
Depends on who you work for.
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Depends on where you work...lol
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Depends on where they work.........
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Depends on how much you work - sm
I work part-time but but in too many hours due to my own lack of discipline and make $16K after 6 years. Started out at about $5K and increase it every year usually, however made the same for 2006 and 2007, hope to clear at least $20K in 2008, shooting for $24K by/in 2009 if all goes well with where I am at now.
Depends on where you work, so you really do have to ask
Depends on where you work.
Even though you are paid on a tier, you can get a raise. Don't know where you heard that.
I am an IC and have received 2 raises in the last 2 years. Guess it depends on where you work.
It depends on who you work for. Every
company is different. Equipment, software, foot pedals, etc., all vary from company to company. Your employer will let you know what you need. Some require long distance on your phone, others work strictly off internet. Wait until you have a job, then you buy what you need.
Pay depends on where you work, I guess.
I know if I have a midnight deadline, it's 4:00 a.m. my time because I'm on the east coast and my national is out of California.
Good luck with the 3rd shift. I was thinking of that myself, but my husband has been doing 3rd shift for 7 years and I do first shift and we tell everyone that's why we get along so good. 
P.S. He usually tries to keep his all night routine on the weekends, (his shift is 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.M- Th) but sometimes he'll stay up on Friday morning and go to bed at 11:00, but it messes him up sometimes because his week starts Sundays with a 12 hour third shift from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. You'll get used to it. He loves it. No alarm clocks. No morning rush.
Depends on who you work for as to how much you make..
The first online company I worked for, unfortunately, found out later they were India-based. Anyway, I work in Escription and made SQUAT. It would take 12 hours or more to make $100. Now, I work for another company that uses Escription and I can make up to $26 an hour doing VR. I think these companies set something up in the line count as how to count it and also it depends if they pay for headers, footers, etc. I definitely got ripped off the first go round. I like the company I work for now and like Escription. You can make money on this platform, although I am paid more than 3.5 for VR. That is ridiculous.
Depends on what company you work for though.
I had the same experience about 10 years ago. I did a comparison on 1 page and found out they were not paying me for any normals, Expanders or macros. I talked to the President personally and he admitted they do not pay for these things. So, I got paid for tp instead of the patient; etc. I told him I was shocked. He said, "that's business." I quit on the spot. That company is no longer around.
depends on type of work
Recent experience shows that working for a service with radiology accounts pays anywhere from $1.25 to $2.25 or so for a page or report (depends on how computer program / system counts a page) with diagnostic x-ray being short and quick and longer MRI/CT reports paying more. I've heard of psych reports - IMEs which are longer with very dense line count per page - being paid higher page rates but many years since I have done this work, no idea of average $ amount now.
That depends on the type of work
Completely depends on the work, but...
with decent experience as a Transcriptionist and a decent amount of shortcuts in an Expander program, I think maybe an average for acute care lines per hour might be about 125 on a new account with ESL. So take your requirement and divide by that...and you might be typing 40 hours or so in order to get 5000 lines in. Depending on work, experience, how long you've been doing that account, if you're getting paid for spaces, and your expanders, it could be anywhere between that and up to or beyond 225 lines per hour pretty much.
I guess maybe it depends on who you work for...
All I know is my boss is well aware of every single report that I proof every single day. I have specific accounts that are my sole responsibility, so if an error like this drug mistake got through on one of my docs' reports, it would be easy to know who saw it last.
Depends on your company. One I work--sm
wants ***00;23**, which is the number of seconds in the report where the word is, another wants ***the word that I think it is***.
What does you company want?
It depends on where you work. I have always, my entire career, been SM
in the 2000+ range. I now do that in much less time than it took me as an in-house employee with no shortcuts or anything.
However, when I went with EDiX my highest day ever was 1900 something and I had to kill myself to get that.
Those company platforms are the devil's work where MTs are concerned.
It depends on how smart and how hard you want to work.
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I agree, it depends on who you work for BUT also the account
and how long it has been on VR. If it has been on VR for a few years, piece of cake. If it is just starting out on VR - tedious work, low pay as it takes longer to edit than to just transcribe it.
I have been doing VR editing for 4 years now with an account that has been on it that long also...can make up to $50 an hour, and some times as low as $30 an hour when we add new dictators.
Hope this helps.
Depends on where you work and how you're paid
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It depends on what kind of work you're doing..sm...
If you're doing clinic work, you would need the book that pertains to your clinic. I'd also recommend a Stedman's Abbreviations, acronyms & symbols. I'd also recommend Sander's Pharmaceutical Book. Other than that, I'd use Google and trustworthy websites.
It depends where you work and what your straight rate is.
I make 75% of my straight rate for VR. This is the highest I have seen. It seems like most seem to offer 50% of straight. DON'T accept that. It is way too low. I don't produce that much more with VR than I did with straight. I am on an account though that is newer to VR, so some adjustments are still being made. Unfortunately even with VR, I probably just give up and straight transcribe half of my VR work that I am getting. It is way faster than trying to fix every other word of an entire report.
I guess that depends on how many hours you work. sm
Do you save yourself 2 hours because of your Expander and then quit for the day? Or do you work more hours because your expansions allow you to = more on the paycheck?
depends on how badly you need GOOD work
and whether you are one of those who spends every penny on payday or budgets.
25-40 bucks an hour suits me just fine, cake platform...
you must just like to complain
I guess it depends on what company or client you work for. nm
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It depends entirely on the company you work for. If their tech support stinks, then
the program will not do well, but if they have good tech support, they can tweak it to work just fine.
Generally 200 lph, but depends on work type, I can do more with OP notes, has to do with motivation
I hate HP, consults, and DS, but that is the majority of what I do. I always, always do better with OP notes.
I get my work from an FTP site that they load the work to, however I don't have pool work so to
speak, but I tell them how many minutes a day I want. The work is generally put in my box by 5 pm every day, then I have until 10 am the following day for some priority work, or 3:30 pm for the rest, so TAT is not too bad. I would like to work less at night though, but I working on that. My downside is I do not get the same dictators day to day, there are a few I do on a semi-regular basis though, some generate great lines but take longer to do that other doc's and are not "money-makers", I also do not get paid for spaces so that hurts a bit too. This is WP5.1 too.....so very antiquated but that is what the hospital uses, so not much choice there. But I understand what you mean about the C-phone. I was just doing another job with C-phone recently...they incidentally did not tell me how to get off of the system, which was very simple. I'd finish a job, then hit stop and hangup if I wanted to get off or quit working. That is what you need to do if you want to sleep, eat, etc. Don't feel guilty, do what you signed up for, believe me they watch the pools and will get others to do the work you don't finish. If they get on your case remind them that you are only PT and only want 500 lines a day, etc. It's not worth killing yourself over. Good Luck. 
depends
I have one female who sounds as if she has cotton stuffed up her nose and she has just returned from the local pub. Instead of correcting, she just rambles and you have to figure it out. For example: "Social history is significant for review of systems noncontributory and mother with diabetes. Pt has never had this before."
I do find the female ESLs easier than the male ESLs however.
depends on where oh where you are now. nm
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It depends - please SM
I'm not sure what you were hired to do but I've always had the worktypes I was hired to do specifically outlined to me. As well, different accounts have different workpools containing specific worktypes. I know when I work on a specific workpool that I will only get certain worktypes; when they ask me to change workpools, the worktypes will change.
It SHOULD work so that you know the variety of worktypes you will get and you should be masked to get them. However, a great part of the time there are cherrypickers who will reject worktypes they do not want to do, dictators they do not want to do until they find a report that they want. Lots of cherrypickers don't like ESLs, so they throw them back.
Depends...
Is that with or without spaces? Is that full audio, read-throughs, or blanks only? Are the MTs experienced or newbies? Are the MTs Indian or domestic? Will you be required to provide feedback for each document or each MT?
If your offer is 5 cents without spaces and you are editing inexperienced or offshore MTs and providing feedback for each document, then 5 cents is too low. If, on the other hand, you were offered 5 cents WITH spaces, are editing experienced MTs, filling in blanks and providing little to no feedback, then 5 cents is fair.
ALWAYS ask these questions ahead of time. Editing on a production basis is no different than transcribing on a production basis--every little detail will affect your paycheck.
It all depends on what they say
constitutes a line. If it is 65 characters includes, spaces, headers, footers then that is decent. Being a newbie you are probably looking at the 8 cpl. Keep in mind if this is an IC position you will be responsible for paying all taxes, no benefits. If it is an employee position it is a good rate of pay these days.
it all depends upon
which of my cats is looking for attention.
Otherwise ... around 90 minutes, I suppose. It's up to my fingers.
Well, that depends on you
My golly, you gals make it difficult for a man to sit still here. All these questions and you gals want answers.
It truly depends upon you as an individual what you make. I usually have a very personal interview with you and usually can let you know at that time. Would you like to schedule something?
We always look to hire, even if you are new to this profession.
If you would like to schedule an interview, call me at 1-800-BIG-DING
Depends on which it is. nm
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depends on where you are
We have a store called Freds in the midwest and I found the exact same bedspread and curtains Penney's wanted (at a price of 300.00) for 70! I also use www.brylanehome.com
At times Big Lots will have good stuff as well.
Depends.
Better buy a box or learn to hold it.
Depends
I taught myself html and have my site through avahost. They are incredibly cheap. I have thousands of pages on mine due to it being a geneaology site. You could contact them about your files and such. It can be expensive to build a website, generally 1000 and up, so that is why I taught myself.
It depends on the age it happens...
I was divorced at 30 and remarried at 31. No, I wasn't looking, but along he came and he was only 26 and had never been married, fresh out of college and ready to settle down. I'm glad it happened then because at 31 you can still get a good guy quite easily. I had a 3yo and it has worked out magnificently. She's almost 18 now and he has been Dad for a very long time, as her father moved across country and she only visits a couple times a year. But blended families more often than not are rocky. I was very lucky. If my kids were older than 3, say school age, I would be more inclined to wait until they are raised. It's too hard for them to adjust at that point. As for remarrying now in my 40s? Probably not. There's not much out there except all the leftover and discarded "toads" I'm afraid. A few lucky ones find a great guy in middle age, but I'm afraid your chances of getting struck by lightening are probably higher.
Depends on the doc (sm)
I actually prefer doing consult letters over all other kinds of dictation. Some doctors are concise and to the point, and some are long-winded (just like anything else). I have found that there they mostly say the same things over and over, so it is a good way to use a lot of Instant Text and boost your LPH. You still have the basics (CC, HPI, PH, SH, FH, Meds, etc.) but you are working in paragraph format instead of using all the headings. Remember to ask for a sample of how they want them done in particular.
The only downside is that you will have to edit them for grammar and tense issues rather than just do verbatim transcription, but it's not a hassle by any means.
I've known other transcriptionists who hate letters, but I really enjoy them! Good luck!
It depends
I had an account that paid gross lines and thought that I got a great deal, until I realized that the page margins were really wide and I would have made more $$ with a 65-character count....watch those side margins!
That depends.....
Were they paying you 12 cpl for a 65 char line count or less than 65? If so, 65 characters is the same, regardless of margins.
It depends on who the cc is..
Are you working on a hospital account or your own accout? Please provide more info.
It is usually justifiable if the cc is involved in the patient's care is some form or fashion and this cc's involvement is documented in the patient's record.
Depends what you consider to be a hot job
I love these people who say they're making 50 grand like it's really good money. Where I live 50 grand is enough to live on - period - and no one would brag about making that, so a job that "tops out" at 50 is nothing to brag about. Only someone who has never had the ability to make really good money would make a statement like that because to them that's something to be proud of.
To answer your question, this is not a hot job. I have been doing this for over a quarter of a century and people look at you like you're an idiot if you tell them this is your job. Some have laughed and said, "Oh, a typist!" or "Oh, you're a secretary!" Neither of which are HOT jobs.
If you want respect for what you do, go to an accredited college and get a real degree - a bachelor's or beyond. Then you're qualified for a HOT job.
Best of luck. Just being honest.
Depends
Well it all depends on the method of line counting; whether it is gross lines or character lines. Gross lines at that rate is excellent hourly for someone with experience. I.E., You can type 1000 gross lines in roughly two hours on average. Here is the math: 1,000 lines x .05 = 50.00 (two hours). Anyone get it?
it could be, it really depends on the dog
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It all depends of course, but I can usually
average 1600 lpd on average for an 8-hour day. When I am part time (4 hours a day), I can get about 850.
depends
As a QA person, to me it depends on the skill level. If someone his hired on and say they have 15 years experience yet leave blanks for general terms, yes I would track them. If I have a person who has been working doing clinic work and wants to crossover, no I don't. I give them adequate time to actually learn. If I can't get a blank either, it most certainly is not counted. Mostly what I watch for are the major errors, medication guessing, gross lab errors, etc. I don't see a need to go crazy on people. They are better served to be taught....if there is a new word they do not know, I send them the meaning. I teach them what the labs mean. I give endless references from books, websites, etc.
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