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QT and Templates - Starving MT

Posted: Jun 26, 2011

Does anyone know the going rate for qualified text? Between that and the templates my accounts uses, my line count is down by at least half. The company I am with now pays 1 cpl for QT and the templates that load require more time to delete headings, cut, paste and move around than the actual typing. We use Emdat, which is a good platform, but the templates and QT are only a benefit for the client (and company) and certainly not the MT. I think this is probably worse than VR! Time to move on!

Starving MT - unhappywithqualifiedlines

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I hear ya about the QL, but here is how I do it. If I have a doctor who uses a lot of templates and then deletes headers, I make a template in my abbreviation program that I can use instead of the template in Emdat. My template still has the hightlighted lines where they should be, but will have the deleted headers removed or additional ones added so I don't have to adjust every single report. If there are spots where I know the doc is going to change things, I insert a jump code into my personal template to save time. If he doesn't change anything where I have jump codes, I can delete them with just one keystroke and move on. This really improves the amount of time I spend on not making money - er, I mean time I spend on making money.

My company pays 1.5 cpl for it. I don't know if there is a normal pay scale for qualified text yet.

Thanks, I will try that! nm - Starving MT

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Yet another way to shift additional work to us while - simultaneously cutting our rates?

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I know it's hard to take a stand, but you're in the forefront--please do it before all the rest of us are in your boat. Apply yourselves to not doing more than 1.5 cents' worth of work. QT is inevitable and fine, and we shouldn't be paid for text created at the hospital, but cheating us should NOT be built into yet another in a line of transitions. This one requires the physicians to adhere more closely to their templates or not use them.

This request comes from an MT who's always been proud of finding a way to do the job needed well and still make money. Applied as you describe, though, this is simply yet more shifting of the costs of production from the client, to the MTSO, to us.

QT LINES - anon

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The MTSO I work for uses Emdat also and we get paid 1 cpl for QT lines, but anything that we have to change or add, even if it's just one letter, we get paid our regular pay for. Luckily for me, I have very few that use normals and about the only QT lines I get are the headings.

anon - unhappywithqualifiedlines

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That's the thing about the QT lines. When you change something, your regular pay applies to the changes, but we are talking only pennies even for one line. I do limit how much work I do for the MTSO that pays for QT lines. The other MTSO that I work for using Emdat does not use QT pay and they get 95% of my transcription work.

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