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Okay, if you were making .04/line with VR but offered 08/line with transcription . . . unlimited amt - would you quit VR and go with transcription?sm

Posted: Apr 22, 2010

I do have some benefits with the VR job, but not good enough to even take them on right now. After 3 months I will start accruing PTO up to 12 days a year. Is it worth it? I was thinking having benefits would be really nice for once in the last 16 years, but now I am thinking it may not be worth the struggle to make a living on VR. They said the platform for transcription is chartnet or chartscript? What do you all think?

.08 for transcription - I do not know

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anything about those platforms, but I would take 8 cents a line for 100% straight typing as an employee in a heartbeat! I am definitely not making it on VR at MQ.

Just My opinion - MT Bottle

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I cannot make a living doing VR. Gave it a good try for 2 years and the going rates for this work are just way too low. If these VR programs are so great and productive, why should the MT's be the ones who pay for them through ridiculously low wages. Yeah, I know it's the future of MT, blah blah blah...I'll flip burgers first.

should let India do the VR work and BRING BACK the straight typing! - nufffffsaid

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Are there hospitals who use VR and (sm) - Long time MT

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Are there any hospitals who use VR and pay MTs hourly to edit VR?

One of our local hospitals has VR and pay hourly and really nice benefit package. - IAMT

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I think most of the larger hospitals will be going to VR mixed with transcription but just my opinion.

I retired last June from acute care hospital - anon

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that changed pay from hourly to 8 cents line for both VR and straight typing but increased line count to 185 lines per hour from 150 which came out to less than I would make with retirement and social security. Also, we were QA'd every week with 98% expected.Hospitals are facing increased pressure to cut costs and the first place they look now is Medical Transcription because they cut everywhere else previously. However, the benefits are very good at hospitals.

The problem is, straight typing is quickly becoming just the dregs of - what VR cannot handle. nm

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