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NetMed - pay by character instead of by line? - jan2

Posted: May 14, 2011

NetMed. They pay by character instead of by line? So, we make at lot less money? Any thoughts?

NetMed - Jan2

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Hellooooooooooooo! Anybody there? Was that a stupid question? Need help.

wah?? - where did it say that?

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If it's by character, then maybe VBC (visible black character)? I turned in a resume yesterday. If I'm close, 10 cpl without spaces is like maybe 8 cpl with spaces?

wah? - jan2

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At their client's portion of their website, they were telling prospective clients how they would save money, that they pay their transcriptionists by character not line.

They showed the same page of text twice. There were like 5 lines of text, each line with only a few words. On the left side they highlighted the words, saying they pay by character, which would total so many dollars. On the right side they showed there were 5 lines, but that they don't pay by the line - if they did, it would be so much MORE money - and the savings they showed was quite a bit difference. Maybe I'm out of my mind (well, ya, I am) but you can go to their website to see it.

So what don't I understand? Thanks.

IMO - They are insinuating that other MTSOs - Yochana

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are paying by the gross line - which is not the case. They don't make it clear if they pay for spaces or not. Ask them if they pay for spaces.

Forget about spaces. Ask what their top 30% of MTs - make per year. That is the bottom line. NM

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They charge the clients $.15/line.. I need to start my own business! - anon3

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Charge per line - Terry

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Anon,

We do not charge 15 cents per line.

Terry

I worked for them not long ago and got paid by the line, maybe they have changed - that, but found their pay in line with others

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They have a lot of ESLs.

Nevermind - Etna

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Didn't see this post is old =(

We do pay by the line - Terry

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My name is Terry and I run NetMed and we do pay by the line. The confusion you are having is from how we calculate a line. The person that said MTSO's do not calculate by gross line is very wrong. A lot of them do and that is how they cheat their clients. We charge and pay the same way. We count 65 character lines with spaces. If there are only 5 characters on a line it does not equal a line it is only 5 characters. That is all. We are not doing anything out of the ordinary but other companies do. Not all of them but some do.

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