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Nuance line counts - K

Posted: Jan 17, 2015

I am a Nuance newbie since the end of last year. When I add my lines I have done from my accounts for one week, 1/3-1/9, I have 6868 but on the timesheet I see my total lines are 4397. I'm glad to see I'm finally in the .08 bracket, but I don't understand the line discrepancy at all! I have added my lines up in the past and it has matched the timesheet lines. Has anyone else had this happen? I'm about to scream

2 questions... - anon

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1. Do you work any overnight shifts?
2. Are you doing editing and ST? If so, are you halving your edited lines for the calculation?

Re: Line count - K

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Yes I do work overnight, 12-8 am. I'm doing editing and ST. I'm not halving the edited lines. I didn't think I had to do that. I did 6231 edited and 637 standard.

calculations galore - anon

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With the new comp plan, we're paid in total straight lines -- 2 edited lines are worth 1 straight line. Then, shift premiums, platform factors, etc. are figured in (or out). Late shifts can be confusing because the pay week starts at 12:01 a.m. Saturday (Eastern) and ends at midnight on Friday, so that may play a part, too. Can you get your TSM to explain this week's timesheet to you step by step? That may help clear up some of the mud. You are NOT alone in your frustration!

So with ASR, your lines are cut in half?? And I am sure there are few ST, so - basically you are working for 1/2 pay? nm

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Not exactly. Just working for low pay--sm - anon

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A line is compensated at whatever rate and basically an edited line counts as half a line. The lowest is .07/line so an edited line is .035/line. If that line is edited during one of the shift differentials, then it counts as a little bit more.

What do you mean not exactly. If only getting credit for 1/2 a line, you are - working for 1/2 price. nm

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It is a bit misleading... - ds

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When someone says (my TSM has said it in a meeting and in an email) that the lowest you can get paid is "7 cents a line..." because the ASR lines are counted at half, they are not actually paid at 7 cents a line. I'm not sure what they are telling new hires during training, but you have to take your speech edited lines and divide them in half, because everyone else's posts above me are correct, an edited line is only worth half of a straight typed line. Those edited lines are added to the typed lines, then all of the shift, platform, holiday, blah, blah, blah, factors are put in. It's confusing, ridiculous, and I'm hoping my interview goes well tomorrow at a local hospital who is hiring for an in-house path transcriptionist! Great hourly pay and benefits! Woo hoo!

They want you to think it is misleading but seems crystal - clear to me. When you SM

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do an ASR job, only getting credit for 1/2 of the character, editing a full line but only getting paid for editing 1/2 of that line, you did that job for 1/2 price.

Don't believe anything they tell you. Think for yourself and do the math. It is not hard.

Sweetheart, I know how to do the math and I also am quite practical-sm - anon

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I never was paid .07/line for an edited line therefore it is not truly much different than what has been going on for years and years. I do not depress a key for each character either so one could argue we get paid for characters we do not type.

The pay sucks, and there is no doubt about that and whoever thinks production can be doubled with editing as compared to transcribing is a moron but nothing has really changed in the way we are paid, other than the amount.

Honey, you drank the KoolAid if you are saying you get paid for - characters not actually typed. SM

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If my hair stylist does not cut my bangs, should I reduce what I pay her? That getting paid for work we don't actually do, it an old line of the MTSO. And if you are getting paid for only 1/2 the lines edited, something HAS changed in how you are paid, along with the piddly amount of your check.

They told me they take off 10% for headers/footers - Depressed

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but when I worked for them they always only showed 75% of my lines (or took off 25%).

Further line bummers - mom22

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On the ambulatory side, if you have QT lines, you are only counted for total lines x 0.125. It doesn't matter how much you manipulate them, which some accounts you do a lot! If you have 1,000 lines, you're only going to get credit for 12.5. THEN, to add insult to injury, they only credit the 12.5 lines to your standard lines to get your total lines per hour (not both). Which means they charge the physicians for the QT lines that you just got suckered out of 987.5 of them.

Praying for opportunity to knock because literally, that is working for free!

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