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Charge for Radiology Reports - mommaMT


Posted: Apr 24, 2012

I have been working for transcription companies for the last 10 years and now feel like I am ready to try it on my own.  I do radiology transcription and would like to get some feedback/advise from any other MTs who have done this.  I thought maybe I should compose a letter to circulate to local radiology/ortho facilities offering my services.  But I'm not really sure what to charge???? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

I'm an IC for a large, very large MTSO and - charged

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$1.70/report. All the radiology facilities in my area are owned by local hospitals the work goes to MTSOs so it was impossible to get rad accts on my own. Depending on your area, I would go higher than $1.70. According to peeps I know in my hospital, the MTSO is charging $2.15/report.

thanks! - mommaMT

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Thanks so much for the input.


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