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Who's decent with math? Have a question about that 5%...... - Kiki1

Posted: Oct 05, 2010

Okay, so today if I did 1320 lines and sent 93 lines to QA, which was only 2 reports all day. Wow it adds up fast! This is more than 5% for today (not sure exactly what % but I'm sure it's over 5%). I'm pretty sure this is an average day. So, I'm still confused about how much we get docked.....will I get paid 3 cents less a line for EVERY line starting when I first go over 5% in any given week, which will be the FIRST day? Will it be on EVERY line or just the amount I go over for that day? I am so confused. :( Or is it figured a different way? And help would be so very much appreciated....my CCM is MIA as per usual......

5% - MTr

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Today you have 7.04545% - 93 divided by 1320 x 100. You still have time to get it down as it is on a weekly basis, Sunday to Saturday.

Amount of lines sent to QA divided by lines transcribed (or edited) the entire week x 100.

5% - BH

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How do you divide it up and figure different rates for transcription and ASR reports?

I know amount sent to QA, but I don't know at which point to apply the 5%.

I have asked CCM and payroll and nobody has replied.

Anything over 5% that goes to QA - amounts to

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3 cpl less.

It doesn't matter if it is ASR or straight typing.

MTr - Thanks so much. Can I ask one more question? - Kiki1

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Let's assume this is how it was pretty much every day, so by the end of the week I ended up with that 7% QA submission rate. Does that mean that my entire week's worth of lines is paid at 3 cents less a line OR just 2% of my entire lines, the amount that went over the 5%? Either way it sucks, but I need to know..

I totally agree with the post down below about comparing MQ's docking of our pay simply by asking for help....would a pharmacist, for example,get his or her pay docked if they couldn't read the doctor's writing on a label? I think NOT.

To Kiki1 - MTr

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Only the lines that are submitted to QA after 5% are paid at 3 cents a line. All other lines, the ones up to the 5% and the lines you did not send to QA are paid at your regular line rate. Hope that helps. And yes, it does suck.

MTr - Thanks again, really appreciate it your clear explanation :) n/m - Kiki1

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:)

5% - BH

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In order to figure my pay after the 5%, I would like to give some approximate figures. This is 5% per week we have to figure.

If my lines were 3,000 per week, and the total lines that I sent to QA of that week were 500 lines, I know I am supposed to figure 5% of that 500, and exclude that. Anything over the 5% of 500 lines sent to QA, I count at the reduced rate.

Of that 500 lines, 100 lines were from straight transcription reports, and 400 were from speech recognition reports. If we don't care if they were SR or TR, then we take 5% of 500 which is 25 lines. OK, now is 500 - 25 = 475, how do we know what to multiply by what? I don't know what part of 475 lines I multiply by 0.534 cpl and what part to multiply by 8 cpl.

To BH - MTr

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Let me try and simplify this for you. First of all, forget straight typing and ASR, it does not matter.

You transcribed (or edited) 3000 lines for the week, and sent 500 lines to QA.

500 divided by 3000 times 100 = 16.666666 (assuming they round it up, you sent 17% to QA)

Here is where you went wrong-- it is 5% of the 3000 lines, not 500, which is 150--these are the lines you do not get charged for. The remaining 350 lines would be paid 3 cents a line = $10.50.

The other 2500 lines would be paid at your line rate, depending on straight typing or ASR.

Hope this helps.

5% - BH

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I just looked on my paystub for tomorrow's pay and under lines typed and pay earning detail, I don't see anything different that last pay period, except I do see something on shift differential. Most of my hours after after 6 PM, EST.

5% - BH

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This new 5% rule did not start on the 10/8 pay. I just talked to payroll. Last pay period, our pay for SR went down to 4.8 cents per line, because of the new rule where they are going to pay us 60% of the 8%. This is bad enough, but we could be paid 1.8 cents a line for that "over 5% rule", and some of these reports that go to proofing because of an author omission or error, are as large as 215 lines, really pushing up my percentage.

WOW! Looks like MQ found a way to pay their QA dept! - shortcake

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I would keep track of every report sent and if it was due to dictator error, etc. I can't imagine that it is legal to dock you for something that you cannot possibly have control over. Just today (thank God not with MQ anymore) I had 2 reports from same dictator with descrepancies all over the place, what is one to do, guess??? In one of the reports he dictated the patient's age 3 times and each time was a different age and did not give the DOB. Something is very wrong if an MT were to be docked in their pay for something like that!!!

DOCK PAY - MQHATER

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Someone sitting at a desk who has NEVER transcribed a day in their life is making these decisions. Who in their right mind would dock an employee or asking for help? We all know a 2nd set of ears is needed at times, no matter how long you have been in this business. For them to dock peoples pay is absolutely absurd. Every day I hate this job more and more. I am looking forward to giving my notice and getting out ASAP.

It would be the equivalent of...sm - Tink

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...docking a pharmacist's pay if he/she couldn't understand a doctor's handwriting and had to confirm the order with the doctor. My husband works at a hospital, and when MQ first started FTR and I told him about it, that is the analogy he came up with. When you're dealing with patient data/patient safety, wouldn't any patient and doctor think it better to double check than be cheap and try to guess? To bad the bottom line usually always wins out these days, and that's not just in the MT world....

DOCK PAY - MQHATER

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That is a good analogy and a good point. I think it is more important that the medical record is correct. MQ thinks it is more important that they make money off us. It is a sad state of affairs. I'm looking hard for a new job and hope to find one soon. I don't like to be associated with this company. They have a bad reputation

I just don't know how this can be legal. We all - shortcake

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get difficult reports from time to time and with this ridiculous rule they are encouraging you to guess which could be dangerous, and also if you have several blanks who wants to even bother referencing if you are being docked anyway. It just seems like they are finding a way for the MTs to pay for their reports to be QA'd, which should not be acceptable to anyone who works there. You are smart to get out. I hope you find something soon. MQ does not deserve the good hard-working people they have. Unbelievable....

legal - MQHATER

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I don't know how it can be legal either. It makes no sense to me. MQ definitely does not deserve all the hard-working MTs that are there. They take advantage of us and find more and more way to reduce our pay. I want out really bad and hope I find something soon as well.

day late dollar short - nightowl

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Just now seeing this discussion. . . now as far as I know, if the dictation is cutting out, or there is a discrepancy of any sort, you can do a Ctrl shift Q, and that doesn't go against you, but it gets stopped with the client, and then they have to figure it out. And if you do put a blank in, you can still send it on if you believe that no other MT could figure it out either, and that won't go against you either. So I listen and relisten, slow it way down, maybe do a report lookup or two (yeah it sucks all that time that goes into it), maybe go to One Look using wildcards, and if I still have no frickin idea what the heck the provider said, I just put a blank in and let it go through.

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