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does anyone else hate this phrase.... - MT

Posted: May 26, 2011

I have 20 years of experience doing medical transcription in hospitals and at home, and lately I have heard things like "4 cpl, this is the going rate now." I find it a little offensive when companies do not think of and appreciate the experience we are bringing. They are basically justifying not paying us for the experience and knowledge we are bringing to the position they want to fill. Does anyone else feel the same way? I am insulted....I am desperately searching for the right company, one that still considers their employees and doesn't clump everyone together at one low rate and not one which even with many years of experience and typing 90 wpm, I am still only able to make minimum wage...I can't wait until I'm at the point in my life where I am able to work outside again. As for right now, I'm stuck in the at-home transcription field....

that has pretty much been hte gripe since before VR and - cpl dropped to 8 cpl straight typing. NM

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drops even further when the companies do not pay for headers or footers because it is auto-populated. I just found this out last night with a company that I recently started working for and in talking to one of the gals in the office and finding out why my line counts were so crappy - 20 reports and 600 lines at 8 cpl does not cut it, but we are told to work harder and longer. What happens if I drop dead? Im 55 and have had 4 of my classmates pass this year, either from strokes or heart attacks, I can't keep up to pay my bills and so sick of this.

I love when they tell me it's okay because I work from home - mt

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What kind of nonsense is that?! My skill does not change just because I'm doing it from home. In fact, I'm at a disadvantage because I can't look up patient information to try to fill in gaps or blanks that I would be able to fill if I had access to a chart. Wonder if the CEOs, etc, would be willing to take a paycut if they were doing some of their work from home. Yeah, right.

from home - tl

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I agree so much. I spend a good portion of my time looking up doctor's names for cc's - most of which are impossible to pronouce, let alone actually find, especially when the company won't furnish a doctor's roster. Then there's the the time spent listening to labs over and over, spoken from a mumble mouth with a heavy accent. Working in hospital, you have access to all that stuff, plus previous reports done. I feel like this whole field is being taken over by criminals, and we're their slaves, but when you're old like me, you're stuck.

So next time QA gets all anal about a comma, say, - "Thats okay, because I work from home!"

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there ya go. works for me. - anon2

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Career Change - Good riddance!

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I have been a transcriptionist,team lead, editor, supervisor and director over the last 20 years. Finally, I am taking the time to learn a new skill so I can leave transcription for good.

Good for you - sm

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The reason our rates keep dropping is because we keep accepting the lower rates. We deserve to be paid according to our skills. If we refused to be underpaid, their only choices would be to pay us fairly or to hire people with fewer skills (which includes outsourcing).

I know it's tough to walk away from a job in this economy, especially if you if you depend on the income, but that's the only way things will change. I'm taking a medical coding/billing course on the weekends now, so hopefully I can make it out soon myself.

Hating this phrase - Old Pro

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I answer that phrase with this phrase: PAY PEANUTS, GET MONKEYS! :)

You get what you pay for - Nell

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Not only do you get monkeys with peanuts, if MTs keep accepting this low pay then that says to the employers that MTs aren't worth any more than that. All MTs really should take a stand and hold out for the money deserved, which is NOT 8 cents a line or 12 dollars an hour for someone with over 10 or more years of experience. If MTs keep accepting less, then those hiring will also think you are worth less. Everybody stop accepting these cheap paying lousy positions.

I 2nd that motion!! (sm) - OTE

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I had a neurologist doing IMEs with 7- to 15-page reports and she only wanted to pay $2 a page. She claimed her MT was retiring. I wanted to tell her that her MT was not retiring, she was getting a job somewhere else. I was not going to take that position for radiology report pay. Ridiculous!

The phrase is worn out - Nell

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You are only stuck if you choose to be, so don't be. Paying the MT 4 cpl would never happen if all stood together against it. C'mon, it is the MTs responsibility to keep up with the current pay scale. Where were you back in 1987? They were paying 6 cpl back then.

I personally refuse to work being paid by the line. That is a RIP OFF pure and simple. If you are going to make minimum wage, get yourself a mindless job where you don't have to struggle with bad dictators, spend all your time trying to do a good job, with little cooperatin. You might as well do something easy. They need to pay for your expertise. Don't settle for less.

Hate this phrase too - Lee

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Try 3 cpl. Ultimate insult for sure. Then what does one do when they calculate the characters transcribed and find out that they are not getting paid for spaces. That thumb has to work just as hard as the fingers. I am all for getting paid for every time my poor little foot has to hit that pedal over and over again trying to re-listen to some garbled dictator who is trying to change the language by leaving out articles, prepositions, and has just plain bad grammar with one run-on sentence after another. I am getting to hate, hate, hate, this business.

I'm Leaving MT Business - Old, Tired MT

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I'm just getting the heck out of the business. I'm not going to chase MT companies and hope the next one doesn't become like the last one I just worked for. Going out on regular job interviews for office work is less stressful than testing with these darn companies, having it work out for a year or so, then getting the same old ASR crud and no work.

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