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qualified text? - dnh

Posted: May 06, 2010

Does anybody work for a company that pays less for something called "qualified text" or in other words pays less for templates, like 10 cpl for transcription but only 5 cpl for the template lines? Were you with them when they paid full rate for those lines? I am trying to find out how much impact (perhaps percentage) this has on the bottom line - a paycheck. The company I work for is going to start doing this and I am wondering how much it is going to hurt. Obviously it would depend on how many template lines a particular acct uses, but any ideas of what others had experienced with this would be helpful. Am I going to need to work a lot more to get the same check? Is it even worth it to keep working? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Which company is this??? nm - jumpingjoy

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nm

so, you get paid for company-generated templates? - n/m

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nm

My company does this.... - anon

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They use the Emdat InScribe platform. The company-generated templates are highlighted in yellow. You are paid less for those lines. I have heard from another MT, who works for a different company using Emdat, getting paid less for those lines as well, so apparently all companies using Emdat are going to adopt this method.

Mine too - I've been told ... - another anon

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by the owner that the clients that use qualified text don't want to pay for the canned text at all. She argues that we're still using our experience to know when to delete or modify the template, eg removing "Many thanks for your referral" when the letter is a referral TO another doctor, and so we still need to be paid something for that (though at a lot lower line rate).

I'm also on Emdat Inscribe.

we have to get paid soemthing for inserting - temp

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the templates, for all the time we spend on it.

Sometimes it takes time to find the correct template, then we have to modify it. Often the templates we load down from the client contain errors we have to correct.

Correcting templates, not getting paid... - 4getit

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here is what you do....you type the template yourself one time..then you save it in your Word autotext. Won't be no yellow highlighting when you pull it up, it will be correct, and you will get paid your full amount. Is this what this has come to? Figuring out how to beat the system just to make a living? Wow....

I do not get paid for inserting the templates - templates

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and I do not even know if I get paid if I have to make changes in the text that is typed in the templates.

I do - MTanon

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I work for a company that uses this but it's mostly templates that consist of the headers so there is not a lot of "editing" for me to do. It only makes a difference in my pay ranging from $8-$20 each pay period (2x a month) usually leaning toward the lower end. Not so bad. Getting paid for lines I'm not typing...and it keeps the clients happy so they don't leave, hence keeps me working. :o)

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