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Generally... sm Posted By: MT Head on 2008-01-17 In Reply to: Line count - newbiemt When they say 65 characters with spaces, it means that you count every letter you see and every space between those letters, and divide by 64, which equals a line. Usually only up to 2 spaces between the period of one sentence to the beginning of the next sentence is counted, not a whole blank line at the end of a paragraph if that line is only a few characters. Some companies pay for the actual ASCII character for the or , but that is company preference. You can come close to figuring with taking your total letters and punctuation plus spaces and divide by 65. That is the AAMT (or AHDI or whatever they call themselves these days!) standard and what I think most companies go by when they say 65 characters plus spaces. If you're concerned about what your company counts or if you're not being counted correctly, just ask them what they count and how they count it, and then verify that that is what you come up with on your reports. Hope this helps! Complete Discussion Below: marks the location of current message within thread Line count - newbiemt Generally... sm - MT Head Another fix... sm - MT Head Oops... divide by 65, not 64.... typo... my bad...nm - MT Head It means you get paid for every character - JT I don't know how they get away with it, but... - see message. They negotiate their rates with - winnie The messages you are viewing are archived/old. To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu Other related messages found in our database I generally... ask for a manager on the spot. If there isn't one there, I'll call back later and speak to one. I, for one, believe in service with a smile. 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I generally request 60 minutes of dictation for the weekend Generally office notes versus hospital For my accounts anyway, my multispecialty is office notes, letters, in office procedures and acute care is hospital notes. generally this time of the year is slow for my hospital NM :) trailer parks and low level housing is where criminals generally go. not too many criminals have good jobs to afford a nice house. i know of child molester filled neighborhood because there are no restrictions, no HOA and the houses are low income homes. no this doesn't only happen in trailer parks but crime statistically happens more often in worse neighborhoods and more ex-criminals statistically live in lower level neighborhoods. Do you think doctors are generally arrogant and make a lot of money and so inconsiderate of us? 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