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Is it better to get paid per dictated minute or per line? - Linda

Posted: Jan 15, 2010

Have an interview on Wednesday and just noticed they pay per dictated minute. Not sure how that works exactly. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!

Is this regarding MD-IT for a cardiology account? - nm

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Yes. Never had experience with this. - Linda

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Had interview regarding cardiology position - sm

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My understanding was the account uses a very specific platform not in use elsewhere. File transfer time is an issue with this platform. Therefore, it is paid per minute to make up for the delay during transfer. An 8 hr day is equal to 60 mins of dictation time. Using that ratio, figure what you need to make per minute to get to the daily pay rate you want for 8 hrs.

Each office manager makes his/her own decision regarding pay and hiring. MD-IT buys the individual offices and the previous owners are retained as managers and run independently in that manner, with MD-IT handling payroll,etc.

If you have an interview with the recruiter, she can explain it in greater detail. Also, if you haven't already, visit their website at www.md-it.com. It will give you info regarding the company.

You will need to provide your own text expander and medical spellchecker, and they want you to allow their tech support people to scan your personal computer for viruses prior to installing their software.

Thanks for the info. Did you take the job? - Linda

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no, but - sm

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At the time of the interview, I had just gotten a raise with my current MTSO, that I have been with for about 5 years. I wasn't really unhappy with my current MTSO to begin with. Just wanted to check out what else was available.

The schedule for that particular account
might have been difficult for me, as it required an early start in Pacific time which wasn't good for me.

However, If I was looking for a solid job, I would have taken the position. From my research and discussion with the recruiter, that particular cardiology account sounded pretty solid due to the exclusivity of the platform.

The only thing that was slighly off-putting was that the MD-IT tech would be scanning my personal computer for viruses. Perhaps, they should have an option to supply their own equipment along with text expander and spell checker.

Although I use my own computer,my current MTSO supplies the text expander and medical spell checker, as well as computer epuipment if so desired.

Hope it all works out for you, whatever you decide.

Pay per line/minute - Euro sepsis

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At the hospital I used to work at we were paid per minute. It all depends on how fast the doctors dictate. The ones where the residents flipped through pages, ate lunch, had someone sitting next to them telling them what to say, you could do well. The ones where the experienced doctors (mostly in OP reports) sped through like they had to pee, not so much.

I guess by the end of the pay period it usually balanced out but now that I'm getting paid per line, I am making a little more money than before.

Hopefully there is a decent balance of dictators. That would be the key.

I should mention that there was a lot more cherry picking going on then because everyone could see the long reports right off. Where I work now that's really hard to do, so that would be a factor also.

Good luck.

Depends how many normals vs paper shuffling - losing money on normals

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At present, I'm taking a royal screwing on my paid-by-dictated-minutes account. It takes 0.09 dictated minutes (or less) to say "type a normal". Even with a dictated minute x10 lines pay ratio, I'm only getting credit for 0.9 lines for that entire report. So I'm basically giving them their normals for free, and it keeps me from typing on other accounts where I could actually get paid. Unfortunately there are a lot of normals on that account, and I'm really losing money.

In the past, I had a wonderful experience with getting paid by dictated minutes. That account had fewer normals, and a lot of paper-shuffling pauses which work in your favor. They also had a higher pay ratio (DM x13 lines). I made a lot of money with them, but now that client is gone.

Unfortunately, you're not going to know until you're on the account which way its going to be.

Are normals never paid? Also, what do you do if normals..sm - normals

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contain errors? Do you correct them or just leave them as is? TIA.

They are paid but paid so low its a joke -sm - going broke typing normals

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"Paid" can be a relative term. How does sixteen CENTS a REPORT sound? This reads like a math problem, but I don't know how else to explain it...

Yesterday I typed on that account for 3 hours, I typed 80 jobs, most of which were normals. The majority ranged from 0.06 dictated minute to 0.20 dictated minutes. My total for those 3 hours was 17.89 dictated minutes.

We are paid on a ratio of 10 lines per dictated minutes. Therefore I will receive 178.90 lines. Multiply that by my line rate, .075 cpl, and I made $13.4175 total. Divide that by the 3 hours worked, I got paid $4.4725 for each hour I typed on that account. That's $2.78 BELOW minimum wage!!!!

Normally I type around 160-170 lines per hour, which calculates my normal rate of pay to be $12-$12.75. Even editing VR I would receive more than a quarter of my usual wage!!!

At what I'm getting paid for these, do you SERIOUSLY think I'm going to spend time tweaking them as well? BWHAHAHA! On a decent account that paid me like a human being , if there are errors in the normals, I report them through the proper channels, as usually they are generated by the client and we cannot "fix" them permanently on our end. If the client neglects to fix those errors and those normals are accepted and approved by the doctor that requested and created them, no, I will not fix them continually. Doc wants "his" normal the way he made it, and that's what he gets; if he wants it modified, he will state that in his dictation.

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