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Patient First Transcription out of Virginia - settled

Posted: Oct 27, 2013

I see Patient First is offering medical transcription jobs. Does any work there presently or know anything about the company. They are out of Virginia. Thanks.

Patient First - I work there

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I have been with Patient First for almost 2 years. They are a very good company to work for. It is hard to get in with them, testing is tough, but so worth it. I have never ran out of work since I have been there. In fact, we just got off of manditory overtime because we were backed up so far.

Right now we have 47 centers (Urgent Cares) in 3-4 different states and they are opening up new centers at least 3-4 per year or more.

It is straight typing. No voice recognition of any kind.

If you decide to apply go online, take the test and then be patient. It took them over a month to call me after I applied.

I don't like everything but this is definitely a very, very good company to work for.

If you get the job they will fly you to Virginia for 3 days, put you up in a really nice hotel, rent you a car ALL A THEIR EXPENSE and you never have to repay anything. Its 3 days of training, benefit meetings, etc.

If you work holidays you get triple time (8 hours holiday time and double time if you work) so those are big bucks days.

Any other questions e-mail me.

Patient first job - ew

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Where do you apply for the job?

Patient First - anon

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Work there too, have been there for a few years:) Everything mentioned in the previous post is correct. Not crazy about their odd way of laying out reports and transcribing, but once you get used to it, it is second nature and your lines (50 character line with spaces) add up really quickly. Great company to work for!

Also should mention that you let them know which 5 days of the week you want to work. If you like a M-F schedule, that is fine. No weekends unless you want to work a Saturday or Sunday as part of your schedule. No set hours. You have a required amount of work per day that has to get done. You can get on and off as you wish, schedule appointments, pick up kids, etc., without having to check in with anyone or take time off. No one really pays attention to your coming and going. You just get back on whenever suits you and make sure your required lines are sent in before 8:00 am the next morning.

Should mention too the nice employee appreciation gifts, holiday bonus, as well as the extra bonus money for working days like the day after Thanksgiving, etc. Nice benefits and PTO package as well.

They are always taking apps... - me

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....but you don't always get called - took the test months ago - they had a hiring freeze - supposed to have 5-6 pages of abbreviations to learn - too much thinking for this old brain.

PF - MT Headed

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I think there might be some confusion in regard to PF. The first is that they are not an MTSO, they are a group of large ambulatory care centers. We've had the discussion about the all expenses paid training before and for someone who would need to travel cross country and then come back home to work with my PC in tow I consider it too good to be true, so that might depend on your current place of residence. I'm unsure of the hiring freeze, they've had an ad on their jobs board since November 2012 for an MT. If you search the archives here you will find messages from the cheerleaders but also from people who worked for them and hated it. All you can do is apply and test and see what happens.

My mistake - MT headed

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Actually the job has only been posted since June which still surprises me. Either they are extremely picky or they are not as great to work for as they appear to be.

Ad on Job Board Dated Nov. 2012 - April

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I don't get it. They keep putting ads on places like Indeed, but then when you look at their employment job board it will show one or two very old listings. I try to apply anew, but I don't think it goes through. I never hear from them and don't know if they are even getting my job app. What should I do? Anyone who works there, it would help to know what to do.

what to do - anon

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April, all you can do is take the test and send in the application. Did you take the test? They get so many applications I doubt they respond specifically to each one. Most say it takes a long time to hear back.

April - nana

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They are old listings because they are continually hiring because of them opening up new centers, 4-5 a year.

If you went through the website and applied and took the test at the end of the testing it should have told you your application has been completed and submitted.

You should be able to log back into your test to make sure everything is done and submitted.

Too good to be true - MT Headed

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No one pays attention to your coming and going? Take time off when you want? Work when you feel like it? Certainly you have someone who has to schedule the workload and coverage for stats. Certainly you have a manager. I'm not sure you are telling the entire story. I'm got some nice beach front property in Death Valley for sale too.

too good to be true - anon

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You should really read more carefully before you come on to basically call someone a liar.

Of course I have a manager. They handle the workload. They can look at how much work is at one facility vs another, who is off, etc., and schedule personnel as needed. There is no STAT. As stated, my commitment is to produce X number of lines a day. Period. I do not have a set time beyond getting that done before 8:00 am the following morning. I never said "take time off when you want," as in a whole day or whatever. I said you can take time for appointments, picking the kids up, etc., and come back later to get your work done, without having to report it to anyone. I can work the schedule I like within the work day, certain hours one day, vary them the next for whatever reason I like without having to let someone know. In that sense, I CAN "work when I feel like it."

You seem to miss the fact that you do have to get your lines in, and that does require a certain number of hours out of a day. It just doesn't matter to them within that day how you arrange your hours or how many or few it takes to get the lines.

this is the same PF cheerleader that's always commenting on these posts about PF. nm - definitely sounds too good to be true

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cheer leading? - anon

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LOL! Whatever. If two ACTUAL EMPLOYEES comes on giving facts regarding a position is cheer leading, then so be it. Honestly not sure what part is "too good to be true."

Have you never worked a transcription job that was based on volume? Why is that concept so hard for you to get? In the "old days," every job I had was based on total lines per day. It was only when my last job went to a horrible MTSO that I had to work hours. I don't like that and set out to find a job that still based a day's work on volume. That is what I found at PF. RAH, RAH, RAH (pom poms in the air, LOL)!

To elaborate - MT headed

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Wow, 2 actual employees came forward, that's enough to convince me. To me, the part that seems to good to be true is not having a set schedule, coming and going during your shift and your manager not caring as long as you do your minimum, I've never had a job like that. I've always had hours where I was expected to be on the job and any time I needed to go somewhere for appointments it had to be cleared through my manager first. Yes, I have worked transcription jobs based on volume. If I reached my minimum before the end of my shift I was not permitted to stop working and go home. We had stat requests all day long and people needed to be available to do them. Radiology had a 3-hour turnaround so it goes without saying that people needed to be around to do the work. No I have never had a job where the "minimum amount" was acceptable. I have also never known of any employer, even those hiring for upper level management jobs, to pay travel expenses. I'm still not sure how PF affords that, the costs are probably being passed along to the patients. I'm glad you love PF, I'll never question anything again.

Just because, sadly, you've only had to have a strict schedule... - AnonAlso

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doesn't give you the right to call people a liar who didn't. I've never worked for this company, but the first 20+ years of my MT career, I had the same set-up. You had a schedule for what days you worked, but no set hours as long as you did your minimum. If you hit your minimum, you were done for the day, unless you wanted to make more money. I worked in-house for most of that time, then worked at home. Yes, this was an acute care hospital with 600+ dictators. We were ALWAYS within TAT. We had no problem covering weekends and nights because of shift differentials.

Why do you think we had this glut of "mommies" who got into MT just to work at home with babies? Because this was a career that offered FLEXIBILITY. Strict schedules, punching in and out, time clocks were NOT the norm earlier in this career.

With the ebb and flow of dictation, this system had always worked until corporate MTSOs changed it. Why do you think there are now so many problems with TAT, mandatory OT one week, no work the next? I presently work for a MTSO with a strict schedule and it has all these problems. Again, why would you insist that your experience is the only true one? Really? *SMH*

Please show me - MT headed

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Where I called anyone a liar, I did not do that. The only thing I know is punching a time clock because I never worked at home. Time clocks definitely are the norm for people who got to an office and don't work in their pajamas. There would not be problems with TAT, mandatory OT and then no work if MTSOs learned how to schedule and made people work their shifts. I did not say my experience was the only true one, but in my world those who try to get by on the minimum amount of work generally don't last long. If .079 per line and $12 an hour pay for PTO plus working 3 holidays a year is someone's idea of a dream job, go for it.

show me - anon

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MT headed,
Obviously you did not directly call anyone a liar. However, you implied it more than once.

In the old days, we never had problems with TAT working per volume. If the MTSO would understand how to actually implement flex schedules, they would have lot less people sitting around with NJA. Punching a time clock in this business is precisely the reason there is a problem. Transcription work has an ebb and flow. If everyone had scheduled days but could flex their time to when the work was there, but have to get all of their work in, it would definitely stay more caught up than having multiple people sitting around with NJA and then sending emails saying everything is out of TAT.

PS No one said this is a "dream job." In fact, each poster said there were things about this job they didn't particularly like. For me, the flexible scheduling and actually getting paid properly for working the holidays is worth the trade offs. For others, it may be the M-F schedule and actually spending the weekend with their family. What is clear, though, is that each of us feel like we are treated as professionals, a valued part of the team, and are paid far above industry standard, whether YOU feel that is adequate is irrelevant.

If you are not in transcription and have never worked at home, then you cannot fully understand what has happened to the home worker in this business. I don't understand why you come here and cast doubt. When someone specifically asks about this company, and those of us who have been around and seen how we are treated at other companies say we have finally found a good company to work for, this should be a positive thing. This company is opening something like 25 more clinics in the next year or two. Each clinic has 1 or 2 transcriptionists. They will keep hiring, and I am sure there will be other inquiries on this board about the company and job. You are free to comment, of course, but without any knowledge of the situation, I don't know why you bother.

mt heated - anon

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Three ACTUAL employees over someone who just seems to want to stir the pot with ZERO first hand knowledge. Just throwing around accusations and saying it can't be true. Well, it is. This is a clinic. There is no turnaround time measured in hours like a hospital. Everything you state is "I" this and "I" that. Your perspective is all you seem to have to go on even when others tell you differently. I don't know how long you have been in transcription, but obviously not long enough to remember the days when MOST jobs were by production without set hours.

If you are the same person who was on here a few months ago stating that they don't fly you in to interview, several people who had been flown in spoke up and said that it was true. But here you are again denying it is possible. Why?

You seem very young to me if you have not heard of employers flying even upper level management people in for an interview. Actually, it happens all the time. You really don't have to worry yourself about how PF affords to do the things they chose to do. They do what makes sense to them.

MT Headed - nana

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Mt Headed you want something else that will blow your mind and I am sure you will not believe, they actually send us gifts in the mail. Last year I got a new fleece throw blanket with PF engraved on it. This year I got a nice chair that I can take to my grandkids soccer and baseball games. That too is engraved with PF.

Although I have never been to, I have heard the Christmas party they put out for the empolyees is unbelievable. Everyone dresses up, goes to a hotel in Richmond, or Pennsylvania or Maryland and he pays for everything. The raffle gifts are rather nice and expsensive too. If I wanted to go I could but I would have to pay my way to get there.

I am sure I just blew your mind but these are all parts of why we are happy at PF. They appreciate their employees which is a rarity now a days, and they show their appreciation, not just say it.

I believe that this company DOES do all of that, but my question is this: sm - not MTHeaded but another skeptic

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With all the abbreviations that we are hearing must be used that you have to "get used to" using, recasting the sentence, and basically learning how to do transcription "the PF way," how long does it take to do the 1400 line minimum? It would seem to me that even with the shortened line, it would take a full eight hours or more to do that 1400 lines. A transcriptionist who is normally able to produce 300+ lines an hour should be pulling 2400+ lines in a steady eight hours. (I realize nobody actually sits for eight hours and types nonstop. I'm just using a fast typist's 300 lph typing "traditional transcription" and not "PF transcription" as an example.)

All of the perks and benes sound wonderful and I'm sure they are. However, in my opinion, all of that is just unnecessary extra if a fast transcriptionist is basically cut off at the knees and taking eight hours to produce the 1400 line minimum (which, by the way, would only equal $14.00 an hour if it takes 8 hours to produce those 1400 lines, and while I would not snub my nose at $14.00 an hour, a fast typist can make well over that doing "traditional transcription" versus "PF transcription.")

another skeptic - nana

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You get 6 weeks of full training and full QA. Some need the full 6 weeks to be up to par and others don't. If you pay attention to the feedback you get from your team lead you may not need the full 6 weeks. By the end of the 6th week you will have all abbreviations in auto correct and you will get to know them by heart. Most of the transcriptionists only work 5-6 hours a day and they have production. So figure that out, isn't that around $18-$22.00 per hour for 5 hours work. If you want more stay on and type more. Basically that is it in a nutshell.

Full benefits? - TGTBT

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How do you get full benefits if you only work 6 hours a day? If you are hired as an FTE, don't they expect an 8-hour day? I must not be doing the math correctly, because for me 1400 lines at 7.9 cents per line does not equal $18-$22 an hour.

Math - Old Woman

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1400 x 0.079 = 110.60/6 = 18.43

This is assuming you do your line requirement of 1400 in 6 hours. Apparently PF requires a specific line requirement and does not consider clock hours for full-time qualification. If a person chose to work longer and make more lines, then the hourly equivalent would bump up closer to the $22/hour.

I don't have a horse in this race, but I have been following this thread with interest.

More math - TGTBT

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I was basing it on a typical 8-hour day, which would be around $14 an hour.

However, 1400 lines a day at 160 hours (8 hours per day per month at $14 per hour) equals $2240.

The same 1400 lines at 120 hours (6 hours per day/month) at $18 per hour equals 2160, so the monthly salary is actually less even though the hourly rate is higher. It would make sense for PF to be okay with people working until they reach their minimum and then quitting for the day, they don't have to pay them as much.

The company doesn't save money ... - sm

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or pay out less money if there is work to be typed if someone only works six hours a day - it all gets typed eventually by someone. The only one getting less is the one who stops at 1400 lines in six hours, which is their choice :)

Math - MT

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1400 lines at 0.079 per line is $110.60 per day, no matter how many hours it takes a person. The pay is going to be the same. If you are able to do the 1400 lines quickly, your hourly rate goes up. If you do your 1400 lines in 5 hours, you make $22.12. If you do your 1400 lines in 6 hours, you make $18.43 an hour. So monthly salary versus higher per hour wages vary only in the amount of hours worked, not how much salary is paid out.

benefits - anon

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You are considered full time, and so benefits are calculated on a 40 hour work week. Your pay is by the lines per day. There are no part time positions, so everyone gets full benefits. It is essentially like a salaried position for benefits and a per diem position for pay.

On a 50 character line, once you get used to your center and doctors, get your auto corrects set up, etc., you should easily be around 300 +/- lph. That is where the hourly rate others have mentioned is coming from.

questions answered - long time employee

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We do have an abbreviation list that we must use. However, what everyone seems to miss is that these are the only ones we can use. Even if dictated in abbreviated form, if not on the list, it is expanded. VA (hospital), LDL, HDL, echo, LVH, a-fib, ACL, PCL, cardiac cath, AICD, CLL, PT (physical therapy), & well, everything not on the list. If you think about it, there are many, many more abbreviations in medical transcription than can be on a few pages long list. You end out actually waay better off. In an average report, I probably have 5 +/- abbreviations.

There is a learning curve to their way of typing. You are given 6 weeks on admin pay to learn & train. It really does become 2nd nature. Also, you are generally on the same center with only a handful of docs to learn. I have tons of auto corrects in place for the things they say over & over. The system is set up for production. No numbering or breaking out exam or ROS by system, for example. Just keep typing in paragraph form. No specific doc requests are allowed. Complete consistency throughout all reports. No specific account specs from one center to the next. No copies are ever sent, so no looking that up.

With all that, I typically am done in about 5-6 hrs per day, but usually go 6-7for some extra lines.

Questions - MT Headed

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Those are good points. It is always nice to receive recognition, but salary is probably the most important thing for most people. Averaged out with the bonuses and incentives, it would be interesting to know the true salary. It's also all ambulatory care, so day in, day out after a person learns the PF system, it may not be too challenging although not everyone looks for that when choosing employment. I will probably be told how ignorant I am, but health insurance might be a consideration for those living out of state. Many of the co-pays and lower rates may only apply to Patient First facilities. Make sure their health insurance is applicable in your state. I know, I once applied for a job with another MTSO; their health insurance network did not cover providers in my state. Whenever others come on and start saying good things about their employers, they are always accused of being "suits." Why is it that no one questions whether the Patient First people are management or others with a hidden agenda? Go ahead and slam me, I don't care.

MT Headed - you are unreal

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If you quit blabbing your mouth and check things out before you open your big mouth, you would find that probably 50-60% or more of PF employees do not live in Virginia. Why might you ask if you were a bit more open minded? Because we have centers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, just to name a few. Yes I am questioning if there may be changes to our insurance duet to Obamacare but other than that no. And yes, that is another perk if you live near a PF and you go there for care, your deductible is waived.

You really just need to stop. If we said the sky was blue you surely would see some black and point that out.

Way back in 2002...sm - Old Woman

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I had a company (Healthscribe) fly me to Virginia, put me up in a reasonably nice motel, paid for all my meals, transported me from the motel to the training facility, and even took us on a chauffeured tour of Washington DC (an a very nice tour at that) when I hired on with them. If I had left before I completed 6 months with the company, I would have had to pay back all the travel expenses. They also trained me on their computer and shipped that very same computer to my house so that it would be there when I arrived home to begin working. Granted, that was more than a decade ago, but it can happen.

I think the thing that is being missed here is the fact that PF is NOT an MTSO. It is a healthcare company who has a group of clinics. They don't have to compete with other MTSOs in order to get contracts with healthcare facilities.

please elaborate - anon

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Since you chose to put your statement in bold, without a shred of fact to go on, what exactly "definitely sounds too good to be true?" Please elaborate.

agree with anon - message for MT Headed - nana

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MT headed, you seem to have your mind made up about Patient First so why bother reading the posts about them. Anon and I have stated facts, if you don't want to believe us then so be it. Trust me we will not lose any sleep, but please don't call is liars.

I know its hard to believe that a company would pay a couple thousand dollars to bring you to Virginia for training but that is the truth. We don't bring our computers back, they ship them next day air. They shipped mine to Michigan.

So for you, you should probably stay right where you are because you probably couldn't cut it at Patient First anyway with that attitude. So you should probably keep your beach front property in Death Valley and anon and I will keep our jobs at Patient First and think of you every time we get a really good check.

Are you by chance an ex-employee because you have posted the exact email every time someone asks about Patient First? Trying to discourage them from having something better. Shame, shame.

So all you nonbelievers just keep on calling us liars cause you don't hear us coming on here complaining about running out of work all the time or not getting paid or not having benefits, etc.

If you are a believer there are still good companies out there to work for, and Patient First is, feel free to apply and like I said be patient and maybe you can get a good paying job with benefits.

Nana - MT Headed

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I am not an ex-employee. I never called anyone a liar, but I just find all of this a little difficult to believe. I don't transcribe any more but did so for more years than I care to admit. I do transcription quality assessment and work in medical records. You are probably right about my not being able to cut it at PF; my attitude sucks. Shame on you as well. Actually, working 3 holidays a year doesn't sound that great, neither does $12 an hour as I make much more than that and it is not based on how much I produce. At my current job I have some pretty great benefits too, but that is confidential info, and if my employer knew that I was going on message boards and telling everyone how much they paid me and making other promises to potential applicants, I'd be shown the door. I can read and respond to whatever I choose. I still think you are not telling the whole story or you would not become so defensive any time someone questions you or challenges some of the things that are being said.

MT Headed - Questions for you

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If you no longer do MT work, as per your post, why, pray tell, are you all-consumed with this organization?

I remember you posting your disbelief on the last thread that came up about this MTSO, even when multiple employees of this company posted, and as I recall, you were like a dog with a bone, refusing to believe what any of their employees had to say.

I don't question the integrity of PF EMPLOYEES that are posting in this thread; however, I do have to wonder about your apparent mission to rebuff every single positive comment made about the company.

I don't work for PF, never have and probably never will (relearning a whole new method of shortcuts doesn't appeal to me at this point in my life), so I have no dog in the fight, so to speak. That being said, your insistence that these PF employees are being disingenuous with their posts is just baffling to me...not on their part, but on YOUR part.

You don't MT any more, you've previously posted your disbelief, yet you question whatever their employees say.

Color me confused, but if you no longer MT and have no intention of applying to PF, why so all-consumed with what their practices are?

MTHead - nana

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You are so right, I do not have to defent PF. Thier defense is that they have transcriptionists who have geen there for years and are still happy.

Shame on me for what? I just called it the way I saw it.

If you have worked in a hospital setting working holidays or weekends is required at least on a voluntary basis.

At PF I work in back dictation which does radiology and I make much more than the $12 an hour. The only time the $12 an hour comes into play is for vacation and sick time, which if we make over our lines for the week we don't have to take if we don't want to.

Like I said if you think we are not telling the whole story then so be it. I am not trying to convince anyone to work for PF. I don't need to. The question of PF hiring was put out there and I answered it. If your not interested then so be it. But we all told the truth. Regardless of what you think.

My take on PF - My POV

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I currently work for PF. They are not the best and not the worst. I know it seems hard to believe, but yes they don't really keep track of your coming and going. If you type current transcription, you have to do 1400 lines per day (50 character line). If you do the "back" dictation, that is where the stats are covered I believe, though they are very few and far between. You can also type x-ray which has a different, lower line count you have to reach, but has a greater cpl rate as you have to type directly onto the patient record system, as does the "back" transcription. Current transcription you type in a long running word document, which makes life much easier.

In my experience, as long as you do your line count, your manager and upper management don't want to be bothered. I actually think, besides the docs, nurses, transcriptionists, and people in the actual urgent care centers, that this is a minimum-work-required environment.

They have a list of abbreviations they like to use, although it is not as long as I thought it was going to be when I started. Howevere, they would prefer for you to sort of rewrite the dictation, which is where some people I think run into difficulty. It took me a good 6 months before it finally started to become second nature, and for me at least, it is rather more intense that just regular typing, but it is doable.

For example, if you can get away without using pronouns he, she, they, I, then they would rather you did, as in, comes in for a cold, not she comes in for a cold.

The benefits are very good and very reasonable. You do have PTO. The highest amount you can select for PTO is 4.25 hours per pay I think. You PTO is figured by your Admin time, which is 12.00 per hour to start. After you have been released from QA, you no longer get paid 12/hour, but your line rate, which is currently 0.079 cpl. Your PTO is howevere calculated by your Admin type, $12/hour.

Occasionally, as in flu season or when they have a backlog of work, they will enforce mandatory overtime or increased line amounts you have to type.

It has been my experience that, when you get into the job, that things are portrayed differently than in training, as in, how some of the transcription guidelines they follow are different. If someone had told me this before I started, that would have saved me some headaches. My advice is take your mmanager's instructions/guidelines to heart, not the transcription manager who trains you in Richmond.

The program for the patient notes is not great (it seems DOS based), but it is doable. You have to get into that to download you patient list for the day.

You do have to work 3 holidays a year and they observe 6 holidays a year, howevere, you do get almost triple pay for working holidays: Your admin time (8 hours) at $12.00/hour, plus your line rate is doubled, so instead of 0.079, it would be 0.16 cpl line, and no, you don't have to do more lines on that day, just your minimum of 1400 to qualify for the "triple" pay.

I hope this helps.

Patient First - kabina

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I was under the impression that Patient First was a majority of VR transcription. Someone above said they had straight. I thought for sure though that most of their work was VR.

straight typing - another PF employee

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No VR at all, 100% straight typing.

In-house position is all I found - Office girl

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I do not see a position where you work from home.

In house position - My POV

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I think you have to look under administrative
Positions and that is where the transcription position is posted

Will They Ever Go To VR? - April

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I really like VR now that I have been doing it a while. Do you know if they will ever go to VR in the near future? If I ever got a job there, I would like to do Radiology. Is there any way to contact someone in HR to see if your application is actually still in the system?

VR - anon

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As far as I know, they do not plan to ever go VR. They have a way of laying out reports and typing that does not follow along exactly with what the doctor says, so it would sort of be a mess to implement VR.

pay at Patient First? - christine

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I've privately emailed three posters on this board who are employees about this, and sure wish SOMEBODY would answer. When you're talking about basically your 'salary' by the end of the year, what you're putting on your tax forms, are we talking about the high 20,000s? The low 30,000s? I know what they pay in terms of cents per line and I know nobody guarantees you're going to make x amount, but I have an interview and I'd really like to work for them but I can't afford to take TOO huge a pay cut. Thanks.
Christine

private email - anon

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Hi Christine,
For whatever reason, I do not get private emails from this site. Have had others in the past say they have PM'd me and have never gotten anything, even in junk mail folder. I emailed this site from "contact us" button at the top, and never got a response or had the problem fixed.

The minimum line count per day is 1400. If you know the line rate, you can figure it from there. On a 50 character line, you should be able to do that plus extra, but that depends on your typing speed and dictators.

pay? - PF hopeful

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You actually have an interview with PF? Are they flying you to Va? How long from the time you took the test and sent in your application before you actually heard anything from them? Did you leave any blanks on the test?

PF - christine

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Answers: I had a phone interview and am going to Richmond to test (again) in person, as they apparently were burned by a non-MT they hired who had had an MT take the test, then, once hired, was absolutely hopeless. I live only a few hours away by car, so I'm driving. However, if hired, I WILL be put up in a hotel, etc. I left a few blanks in the test, which I took about a month ago.

PF test - discouraged

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I've been transcribing for a long time, and ESLs are part of the norm. But that test was horrible. Even after relistening, there were blanks. If that is typical, forget it.

PF test audio is much worse than actual dictation - My POV

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I was rather disturbed when I took the test, but hoped maybe it was just the mt test site and was relieved to "hear" the audio is much better in actuality.

benefits/insurance - christine

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I really need to know, since if I get offered the job, I'll need to give some notice soon. Since I can't get anybody to tell me whether they're making in the 20,000s or 30,000s (I KNOW the cpl), would an employee or ex-employee please give me a little more detail on the health insurance (preferably some specifics, like through which company)? Thanks.

Salary estimate - ch

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I do not work there but I was offered a position with them about 3 years ago. I was and still am doing QA for another company and chose not to accept the job. Anyway, the gal that first told me about PF (from another message board) told me that she works about 5 hours per day and makes about $2000 a month. That is the amount she wants to make so that is all she works. She also said the benefits and everything else about the company was great! Good luck, I would take the job if offered for sure!

Salary - ch

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Actually, I just went back to that message board and read her post again. Last year she was making about $30,000 per year at PF working about 5 hours per day M-F and all of the awesome benies.

Thanks so much, ch and anon! - christine

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I truly appreciate it - specific info is really, really helpful. My job working in an office, doing transcription, just ended thanks to the usual transcription company buyout, and while I've been offered another job, it's doing something I absolutely loathe. I'm just afraid of taking a risk...Thanks again.

office job - anon

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Hi Christine,
If you are used to an office job, you may be in for a bit of a shock. What you are probably used to in house just doesn't exit out there right now. I have yet to find any job, even the one at PF, that comes close to the job I had in house. This job is fine, and it suits MY #1 priority, which is a flexible schedule and just being left alone to get my work done. Other aspects of the job may or may not suit you. You will have to weigh the pros and cons and decide. Be sure to write down all of your questions so you don't forget to ask anything. If you take the job, be prepared for several weeks of training at the admin pay level. Once you are off training and on your own, you will be able to get more of a feel for what the job is really like. Good luck, whatever you decide!

offices - christine

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Nah - thanks for the advice, but I've been through the mill with the at-home jobs too. First I had a nice solid job doing transcription at a clinic for about five years, then - whoopee! They sold us out. I then spent about eight years working for a few at-home transcription companies discussed - and dissed - frequently on this board. Then last year I found another in-office transcription job, was enjoying it... Well, guess what happened a couple months ago?! So I've been able to transition, if I want to, to a job answering phones/checking patients in in a very high stress environment making a little less than I was before, or take a bit of a risk.

So I've seen all sides of this. I know transcription won't last forever, but I'm going to school part time too, so I'm not putting all my eggs in one basket. I just don't want to be miserable! Thanks.

benefits - anon

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As far as the salary, it really depends on your rate of typing and how much you want to do. Since you know the minimum line count and rate, you know the bare minimum gets you into the upper 20s. From there, it depends on you. If it takes you all day to do 1400 lines, obviously you will be in the upper 20s. How many lines do you average an hour? If you get your minimum for the day, do you want to do extra or do you value the time off more?

At a medium pace, 250 lph for 8 hours a day would come out to approx 39 +/-. You are the only one that can answer what you can do. I would feel fairly safe to say most are def in the 30s.

As far as insurance, I believe it is Cigna. There are some options to choose plus a healthy person discount. Again, don't know your situation. Coverage for you, husband, children? Delta Dental. Eyemed for vision. I think Liberty Mutual is the life insurance. Can't remember the short and long term disability company. It is all pretty inexpensive. I don't think these changed in this last year, but don't use all the benefits offered, so can't remember for sure.

Wow, the transcription portion - LLR

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I couldn't believe how bad the dictators were on this. I would love to hear from those that found this easy as after 20 years I must have missed something along the way. How in God's name did anyone pass this without any blanks? Please help me understand. I'm feeling like quite a failure right now as no way I could get one of the doctors unless I had a chance to get use to them.

testing - nana

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Yes the test is difficult and yes PF has difficult doctors as every place has. When I took the test I thought I bombed because I did have a couple of blanks. When I got hired and I went to Virginia I told my lead I didn't expect a call and she told me what I typed was accurrate and that is what they look for.

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