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Offered 8 cpl at SoftScript for 20 years experience. - Sally

Posted: Jan 05, 2011

Has anyone said that was not enough and have them counter offer with more? I don't plan on working for SS (I saw way too many complaints on the other board about them), but what about future offers which I suspect will not be any higher?

I saw on the resume board what I consider way too many willing to work for 7 cpl with plenty of experience. Is it likely they will pay more when others are willing to work for so much less? And many of these 7 cpl were IC.

All opinions welcome.

Nope, not likely. - Go ahead and turn down 8 cpl

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They have scores of people sitting there salivating at the chance to work for 8 cpl.

Same with 7 cpl.

Good luck holding out for the dime.

I'm holding out, and for a lot more than a dime! - If Im going to go hungry, I might as well -

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do so while still having a shred of respect for myself and my hard-earned skills. I refuse to be a transcription-ho.

Sure are - mt27

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I am one of those willing to jump at 8 cpl for straight transcription, it sure beats 4-5 on VR with the VR systems as bad as they are, I have 25+ years experience and used to make much more but again, 8 cpl is better than 4-5 on VR.

What kind of experience? - LK

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And what kind of transcription would you be doing for them? At my company, line rate is determined by whether you are doing op notes (highest cpl), consults and H&P's (middle cpl) or clinic notes (lowest cpl). And 20 years experience can mean anything - was it doing acute care/heavy ESL, or was it doing single specialty clinic notes? They're two different animals and it would be justifiable to compensate differently. Just saying 20 years doesn't tell the whole story.

I have 6 years heavy acute care experience and the lowest I would consider taking is 9 cpl for acute care as an employee, and then only if there were decent production incentives and no heavy ESL.

LK - so heavy of ESL that I sometimes don't even - Sally

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get an American dictator in a day. And basic 4 all those years with most of it being on OPs. And for big hospitals.

I want to be realistic in asking for more if I can get more. If not, I will accept the 8 and keep my mouth shut. If I can make more, I want more.

As far as 7 cpl, would not even consider.

Wow - would like to think you could get more. - LK

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You may not be able to get it with that particular company, but I should think you could get more than 8 cpl for acute care with that kind of background. Personally I would hold out for more, but I guess that depends on whether you can afford to wait and keep looking. Companies think they can just keep decreasing wages; at some point they won't get decent employees for that kind of crap money.

Offers like that are why I'm no longer looking for a - job with a national. Ideally, I want - sm

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to find another inhouse hospital job, and I've been toughing it out at my current MTSO while I look for such a job, even though the pickins are pretty slim in northern CA. If all else fails, I might work for an MTSO again, but only a small one that does local work. No more ripoff nationals for me.

Doesn't matter if they offer 20 cpl if you only do 2 reports a day. nm - JMO

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Unfortunately - memt2

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I have over 30 years experience and get offered 8 and below, was told that one company paid everyone the same, regardless of experience. Two different companies offered me a position recently and when I would not accept 8 cpl, they never called again, no counteroffer, nothing. This bothers me because my experience used to be worth something, I feel like I have worked hard for 30 years to gain the knowledge I have and now it is worthless to any major company.

We can thank VR/ASR for this. - anonMT

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ASR pays so horribly that MTs are desperate to escape and will work for 7-8 cpl straight transcription just to survive.

It's the pay you seem to mean, not ASR itself. - VERY important (and positive) difference.

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After all pay can be adjusted, but ASR's not going away. (Resolution for new year: Sop resenting gravity.)

I am pulling in 12, 13, and 15 cpl - No Middle Man

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Working IC directly for three different practices.

Yes, you can get more than 7 and 8, but not from any "MTSO."

That is wonderful if you work in an area where there are (sm) - Middle Man Needed

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doctor's offices and hospitals close to you. Unfortunately I live in a very rural area, the closest doctor's office or hospital is over an hour away so that makes obtaining my own accounts extremely difficult.

These jobs will only be possible for another 3-4 years - IAMT

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as the physicians will all be required to go to electronic records if these are tape accounts. My physicians on tape accounts have already informed me they are looking into buying their software and have offered me the choice of coming to their office to do the transcribing when that happens though.

You can absolutely be EMR compliant if still dictating on tapes or digitally. - CaliDeb nm

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Confusion about electronic records - Anonymous

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A differentiation needs to be made between electronic records and voice recognition. The electronic record needs dictation/transcription, the difference is that there are no hard copies of anything. This does not remove transcription from the picture. From what I have seen of VR, editors are needed. Not many physicians have, or want to take the time to edit their own dictation.

What technique? Call-in dictation? Or you pick up tapes? - Thanks. NM

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My accounts are not all local - No Middle Man

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One is 3000 miles away on the opposite coast, one is the next state over from mine, and one is local.

They are all digital voice files, utilizing email and FTP.

No tapes, no printing, no pickup/delivery.

And to the person who said EMR will cut out these jobs: Not necessarily. "Having to" go to EMR does not mean doctors will stop dictating altogether. There are many who will do the minimum required to not get dinged by Medicare but still do their letters and comprehensive reports the old-fashioned way. Two of my doctors have already said that is their plan.

I am not an ostrich, though... I do have my own backup plan.

care to share your backup plan - me2

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you sound like you don't realize how lucky you are, is that true, or are you thankful for these accounts? are you willing to say how you were able to obtain accounts from 3000 miles away still making 13 cents a line?

I made 12 cents a line for 7 years, and 2 years ago that was abruptly dropped when MTSO took over, now my income is down 60%. yes, 60 percent. less work... less money per line. it's tough, you are lucky, be thankful. I'd give anything to work for that amount of money again...

I have over 30 years of well-rounded experience - myMT

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I currently work for 3 companies. I'm paid 9 cpl for all 3. Two of those positions are IC and one is employee. I've run my own business and know this business inside and out, but all those negotiating skills were met with "that's as good as it gets."

I did get a higher offer but frankly it was harder work than any of the work I do now and IMO the 2 cpl didn't make up for the wasted time having to deal with crud.

(BTW- SS offered me 8, too but I said no.)

It's going to depend on how badly you need to work at this point in time. I saw below someone touting higher rates with no middle man and that's true, in some areas you can charge more, but there's usually a bunch of issues that come with those rates, too. At this point in *my* game, I just want to type and get paid with the least amount of thinking on my part. I'm way past the days of loving what I might learn :)

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