I guess the bottom line is any one of us would go back to in-house... SM
Posted By: CuriousMT on 2008-07-20
In Reply to: seeking work - tryinghard
given the chance. I re-read my previous post to you and I sounded like a b*tch and I wanted to apologize. You sound like a very positive person who takes criticism and not so pleasant advice very diplomatically.
If your problems with your boss are more of a personal nature, rather than the quality or quantity of your work, I would maybe go over her head. You already have an adversarial relationship with her anyway, so why not get it on record that you feel she is treating you unfairly? Or maybe confront her yourself? I would probably do the latter. I'm not someone that can bite my tongue which probably explains why I work by myself at a computer all day rather than in customer service! 
Just an FYI, I actually am starting an in-house MT job at a hospital tomorrow! I've decided that if they try to lay me off in favor of outsourcing, I'm just going to refuse. I'm going say "nope, I'm sorry, I refuse to be laid off. I'm going to get back to work now." I wonder what they would do? 
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I guess the bottom line is
can I make a decent living doing mostly VR at 4 cpl?
The bottom line is doesnt matter what they pay if there is no work you make no money. Bottom line.
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Bottom line is the $.
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The bottom line is
You always type it the way the client or your boss, company tells you to. And you are right, ibuprofen should not be capatalized unless at the beginning of the sentence because it is the generic name of a drug. As far as the BOS is concerned...there are many people that believe that book is the Bible as far as transcription is concerned. Again, it all boils down to the way your client or company wants the information transcribed. The BOS is not always followed to the letter.
bottom line
nobody likes to see the officials produce the outcome of the game.... Of course they have to call things that are obvious, but in a championship game you cannot call the "iffy" calls and potentialy change the outcome of the game. Just let the players PLAY!!
Bottom line -
It can make a WORLD of difference how you feel about this profession depending on the accounts you have. I used to have nice accounts and made tons of money because I also got paid a huge line amount. I now have really tough accounts and do not get paid as much as I previously did. I work on four different accounts with all different specifics, tons of backround noise, grunting ESLs, you name it. I also have nearly no contact with the company itself, unless they need something from me. They then have no problem with calling me up.
Bottom line.......sm
You need to decide if this account is worth the aggravation. If it pays well and you make a decent wage monthly, then you need to put up with the aggravation.
If this account is not worth your time, then let it go.
If you are an IC, you can not get involved in the politics of the office or any other "petty" nonsense.
From the business owner perspective, only you can decide if the account is prosperous for you or not.
All this stuff about missing notes is aggravation and time consuming. Time is money. Is this account worth the headaches that come along with it.
Believe me, not all accounts are like this and some accounts are worse than this.
Again, the question becomes.."does this account make you enough money a month that you are happy with?"
Only you can answer that...Going back and forth with the office staff about missing notes is not the answer.
Ask yourself....Is it worth the effort to negotiate your contract under new terms, and if so, will you be happy with the new terms, and will these new terms eliminate your problem of missing notes?
As an observer.....the answer is probably "NO". But good money to me and good money to you may be different.
Good luck!
Bottom line is don't sub it out if
I would like to know bottom line here
I have been working in this field for 35 years and hope to continue. I work mostly VR, some straight. My pay is low, 4 VR and 8 straight. I only work part-time now because am at a point where that is sufficient. Can anyone tell me what their final pay is for a week's worth of work? If I worked full time it would be at least as much as I made in the 80s working inhouse. I know the pay is less than we made years ago but I figured out how much I needed to type to make X amount of dollars and that is what I do each day.
Yep, for Wedmedx. Bottom line, if you are an MT
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Bottom line, in the loop. nm
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bottom line it's what client wants...sm
and all of her corrections, most of them were right on....sorry to say that to you.....but it's p.o. b.i.d. and 82-year-old and all that good stuff. If they want you to EXPAND GERD that's in your favor.....you get more characters which equates to more line counts. But bottom line, it is what the client wants and all the clients are different with different things they want......hence why you think there is no consistency. Best of luck!!! 
always remember -- the bottom line is it's about
Errors in transcribed reports can and do lead to adverse outcomes for patients. Are we as MTs pushed to be perfect ?? Heck yes - the documentation we help produce will impact a patient's care not only in the current admission or office visit but in the future when other docs are asking for copies of records. Medication errors, diagnosis errors can haunt a patient for years to come. No one can be 100% perfect all the time, but the goal is to strive to that - take the feedback as constructive criticism - learn from your mistakes and always consider the patient's needs above your own need for validation. It's not about you, it's about the patient.
Bottom line for EVERYTHING is the almighty
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Well, bottom line is money
If the administration at the hospital are feeling financial strain, rather than cutting back on their own 6 figure salary, they seem to think hmmmm....how many people can we get rid of and get the job done at a cheaper rate." At least that is what happened at a hospital I worked it. They were 16 million in debt and there had to be some lay offs and others that were left took the slack. They don't sacrifice, they expect everyone else to work harder and get paid less.
It is not just us. H works for a car dealership. People are leaving and are not getting replaced. The owner expects the workers that are still there to pick up the slack with no raises either. When the finance manager left, the new car manager filled in. He went and asked the owner for a raise because he is having to work 2 jobs now. The owner told him no, he is just filling in. The man said, no filling in is 2 or 3 weeks, this has been a year. The owner said, well, we don't really need a manager, we need you just to sell cars. In other words, the guy got demoted. After being there 10 years, he left. H's boss is going in after the first of the year to try to get them all a raise. I have to put it to him, he is brave to do that after what happened to the other guy.
Can I actually just buy sliced bread and line the bottom?...
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It is all about the bottom line. One of the largest transcription sm
companies is Cbay and they are pricing everyone else out.
I have spoken to several doctors and many other people about this issue and no one, and I mean no one, gives a hoot who types the report up.
This is about dollars and cents and it is not going away.
Bottom line is they need the worked turned around
quickly. Most companies overhire and one of those reasons is because there are lots of MTs who don't work their usual schedule, take a day off w/o notice, etc., so they have to have extra to cover for that. My company does their best not to overhire, but at times that means we have to work like dogs because there is so much work. I think some companies also offer incentives/benefits based on production and if you can't reach them they don't have to compensate you for them. There are times that work is just slow and a company can't give you work they don't have, but not being able to make any lines is a consistent issue then there is a problem. I would call your supervisor and ask for a backup account and/or look for another position.
Hosp not right but bottom line was with CIGNA.
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Bottom line, if it ends up in court, it is on the
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Bottom line, if your time is adequately
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It is not MT versus MTSO we have a bottom line too, & right now it is -
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The bottom line is if the work runs dry, then
It's not rocket science.
With state and Federal, you 40% of your earnings GO, bottom line.
I don't know what's up for debate, it's fact.
Housing prices have gone up 40% in the past year alone in California.
Bottom line, just worry about your own butt instead of kissing theirs ; ) LOL
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Spoken like true "suit". All about the bottom line,
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Lets bottom line this, say she leaves and goes to another company
What do you think would be her chances of them going to VR? Do you think it will go poof and disappear? Do you think refusing to take lower wages makes the companies take notice and reverse to go back to the golden days when we had really good salaries? Be willing to bet that next paycheck most would go along with their companies going to VR rather than changing, going to a new job only to find out the same thing happens there.
And all this time I thought the bottom line was patient care. nm
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Webmedx has shortened all the hours too, for which they pay a differential. Bottom line, always.
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We don't care what kind of education you have or how many websites you know about, bottom line
is your lacking of personality, and your [ pointing the finger ] attitude that you have. You go back to transcribing all the YUK that we now get after VR skims off the cream and see how well you do sitting listening to that for an entire shift, and you may take off that crown on top of your BIG HEAD !! How did you find one big enough to fit?
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Bottom line? Religion, of any kind, IS a problem. The world
So there.
Guess you'll have to come to my house for pizza!
Just finished canning 30 pints of pizza sauce from my homegrown tomatoes, peppers, basil, garlic, oregano and husband grows the onions. Husband and his brothers own a large crop farm so can and freeze lots of veggies. Also made salsa last week. Almost always make my own pizza anymore because of the artificial color problem. Haven't quite perfected it though (that pizzeria taste) but have got the crust almost "right". Would be happy to share my recipe for dough. Also sincere the in the shoulder if you need one- would be willing to share email address to correspond.
Ezcema is such a bummer!! I have several nephews (husbands side of the family) with it. Was worse for them when they were younger and has definitely gotten better now that they are older teens now. Food allergies did seem to be a culprit for them. Can you believe that when my daughter was totally covered all summer with hives that I went to my mother in law and asked her if anyone in the family had any allergies that she knew of because I was totally at a loss, immediately she said no without a thought. (Couldn't be anyone in "her family"). Then after I almost killed my daughter with Amoxicillian (strep throat), Gatorade, cough syrup (cold/cough), Benadryl (hives) and Advil (fever) (all of which have red dye which she is most allergic to) and her face and throat swelled up the mother in law suddenly remembered her sister stops breathing if she has artifical food colors. Golly gee thanks for your help. Her sister has food allergies and so do the nephews thanks for thinking of your granddaughter.
So, bottom line is it is a fraudulent web site and viewing it may have exposed us to a virus?
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I wish I could go back in house
I worked in-house in Florida and we made a base of 14 (this was back from 1997 to 2000), with $1 per hour more for everything over 500 lines per day to a top of 18.00 per hour PLUS 8 cpl for anything after 1000 lines per day. I made 1300 biweekly take home plus another 1500. monthly bonus. You could get up and stretch, talk to coworkers, etc. Now the circulation in my legs is shot, my hands are nearly non functional, and for nothing!
Back when I was in house it was -
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Left click on the taskbar and drag it back to the bottom. Once you've done that, right click on
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put your mouse on the bar, hold down the left side of your mouse and move it back to the bottom, let
hope this works
You would need to go back in-house to be paid by the hour.
Thank you! Guess I'll have to go back...
and try again!
Big Brother fans. Whose going to be voted back in the house?
This is absolutely the worst reality show ever and I am mesmerized by it.
Whole point...Told you have the job...Call back, oh sorry, I guess not
You just don't tell someone they have the job, then call back and say, oh I didn't check your test, you didn't do good enough for the job. Sorry.
and not the phone line to your house
We had a war with Earthlink over this. It was their responsibility to contact Bell South about the problem, but they said it was our responsibility (we have a DSL line). We finally dropped them and went right to Bell South. Everything was fine for a while and then the problems returned. The service tech played a hunch and checked the underground wiring in a hub(some green box about a block away) and that was problem. He took care of the wiring and the problem has never returned.
Along the same line, does anyone do coding at home or only in house? Does it pay well? nm
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8 cpl was an example, not my line rate; however, my guess
would be the overall charge to the client to cover overhead, etc, would vary, depending on the size of the companies (both service and client), the state/region the client is in, degree of difficulty, platforms, quantity/quality of dictators, turnaround time, how the work is to be transferred, possible retainders, competition...
I have no idea, I'm the LAST guy to get paid.
How are they paying their in-house transcriptionists? Hourly or by the line?
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This is just a sarcastic guess, but I'm assuming by the line - sm
why else would there be so many mistakes. If they were paid by the hour, maybe they would spend more time on getting to know the ENGLISH language. I actually had a report come back from India where instead of the word "children" it said "litter."
I don't know how to off-line instant messenger....guess I'm
tooo stupid. WOW, thanks for clearing that up! Have a great day!!!!
I would guess with that high of a line count
that it has less to do with her Expander and more to do with a really good combination of doctors. Sounds like you are doing great with 350 lines an hour -- an expander will probably push you up to 400 to 450. I wouldn't expect it to double.
I guess so! I betcha make your new line count!! NM
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Just got a check for a supposed miscalculation of line on DQS for the last 2 years. Guess they
figure they werent going to win that lawsuit. Wonder what else they are going to do. They reduce ASR, they load the accounts with tons of MTs and we need either tons of backups or just a few and then have no work, what next.
I'm sure that she'll be right back in line....sm
at the shelters getting the free meals, handouts and applying for additional government aide.
When they announced they were giving out these debit cards I knew immediately that it would be misused by people. There's nothing to stop them from taking the cards, putting them into an ATM and getting cash, which some people will then buy illegal drugs and alcohol with.
I don't mind handing out money who can prove they had a place to live prior to the disaster but I do have a problem with handing out wads of cash to the people that were homeless and not trying to seek employment before the storm - those folks have basically hit the social lottery as they've now been given free transportation, meals, shelter and tons of other stuff just because they were there.
One of my relatives who was in Hurricaine Andrew saw this same type of abuse going on in Miami after that storm. He saw people walking around with the wads of cash the federal government gave them and blowing it on either stupid purchases or on partying, then turn around and file for a loan that they didn't intend to pay back to continue misusing the money.
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