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Info. needed on transcriptionists who work in the hospital. - wondering sm

Posted: Mar 10, 2010

Hi all,

I was just wondering what a transcriptionist in a hospital makes per hour compared to working for a large transcription company at home. The job I am seeing is for a part time transcriptionist, so I am assuming no benefits would come with it, not sure. Thanks for any information!

hospital pay - mt

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That would depend on the hospital. You could probably call HR and ask if they pay hourly, have tier pay, incentive pay, etc. The hospital in my area starts between $9-10 an hour. I haven't lived on that since starting the MT business. I thought MTSOs were bad!

hospital pay - NCalMT

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I work part time in a hospital setting. Benefits start at 24 hours at this particular facility. My pay started at $18.50/hour plus a generous incentive program and hourly raises each year. HR should be able to give you some information for the particular facility.

Wow, wish I was in your area! I am in Virginia. - wondering sm

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I am thinking the pay for a transcriptionist in VA is much lower, like the other responses, but your info. sounds really great! Thanks for your time!

In Southern California, I've seen. . . - SoCal

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starting hourly wages ranging from $16-23. Larger hospitals/medical centers do NOT necessarily pay higher than smaller hospitals. That was a surprise to me.

Started out at $17.00 per hour with 90 minutes per day requirement. Merit raises yearly to max of $2 - Birmingham Ala MT

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No incentive.

Started at 9.90/hr with great benefits and vacation/holiday pay and incentives... - 10.40 after 6 mos....nm

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Info.needed on transcriptionist who work in hospital - mt

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Change is occurring in the hospitals also. I was a transcriptionist for 30 years and retired in June because we went from making 18.00/hour with incentive pay for anything over 150 lines an hour to 8 cents a line for combined straight typing and ASR. We had to achieve a line count of 185 lines per hour where before it was 150 lines. I worked at home. This all came about when we got a new manager who, I think, was going to make her bones with our bottom line. As far as whether working in a hospital environment is harder, depends on the hospital and the QA and line requirements. I think they are all going to some form of voice recognition. You need to know how to type the basic 4. I typed mainly op reports and other people did H & P, cons, DS. We sent out ERs (which were not ASR). I do agree with that medical transcription is a dying job. Hospitals are always looks for ways to cut costs and our department survived several reviews but they were always threatening us with India sourcing because it was cheaper.

That is awful for a hospital setting - Linda

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Our hospital outsourced 6 years ago and at that time was making $22 an hour with great benefits.

I left a hospital job that was paying me about $22.50/hr. - in order to work at home. STUPID move! nm

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Do you think is was harder to work in a hospital setting? - wondering sm

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I am kind of nervous to make the change to the hospital setting, as I fear I won't cut the mustard or the pressure will be more than I expect. Thanks for your help!

One advantage of working inhouse is that - SM

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you have other MTs to ask questions and listen to blanks for you. I really don't think it is any harder. It has been 12 years since I have been in the hospital setting and it is nice to have other people around, sometimes it can be noisy and you might have a hard time with that versus the quiet at home. The only pressure we really had where I worked were stats that had to be done before patients could go to surgery.

Didn't you have an hourly line quota to meet? - wondering sm

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I am figuring it is like at home where you have an hourly line count to meet, so talking would interfere with that. Thanks!

One advantage of working inhouse - mt

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That is how it used to be 12 years ago. You have an hourly line count, 98% QA with no more than 2 blanks per report. Since the transcription department produces no income, it is looked as a potential for cost-cutting and are an easy sell for voice recognition.

We had a quota to meet per week and were paid - SM

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a bonus on top of our hourly rate.

Where I worked, they counted minutes of dictation, - and we had a daily minimum to meet.

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Still, that figure was divided by a 2-week pay period and rounded out.

No, we never had an hourly line quota - some worked harder than others

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(Scenario: Radiology, 6 person bullpen with a couple part-timers, @$10/hr) We were set up so that certain people (friends of the lead worker) could goof off all day and the rest of us pull the weight. If we all got to goofing off and the total minutes to dictate got too high, we all had to buckle down and type until it got to a more acceptable level - the lead or our supervisor decided when it was time to work or play. The only goal was to "get it all done" after the last doctor left - so whoever worked the later shifts did the majority of the work - unless some docs came in early, then the morning workers got swamped. On the rare occasions we had to work OT we were forced to take time off the same week to make up for it so they didn't have to pay us OT. We were all hourly and got raises by longevity, not production. The only QA was one another and the docs. I never even HEARD of the BOS in that place. Rotating weekends and holidays, and plenty of whining and swapping about those. Rotated answering the phone and keeping the stat log sheet. Responsible for faxing and confirming our own stats and making sure they got logged.

If anybody in that place paid any attention to quotas and production, some of them would not have had jobs. So I know in some work environments its a non-issue, as long as you have the right balance of fast overachievers and lazy slackers.

The only things I considered harder were dealing - in person with an evil boss. (sm)

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Co-workers were great. Office was noisy, however, and always too warm in winter (heat), and too cold in summer (A/C). Lots of boring meetings to attend, though still expected to keep up our line counts. Getting there at a certain time everyday was hard for me, too.

Still, I find never having money for anything to be far more difficult. If I get a 2nd chance to work inhouse somewhere for a liveable wage again, I think I can cope will all the above, (minus the evil boss... already got one of those right now).

Thank you all for enlightening me! You all are great! - wondering nm

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nm

It seems to be that working in a hospital can be better... - thanks for the info

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than working at home, and you could possibly make more money. However, if you are not an extremely fast typist (like 70 wpm or more) it may not work out. I have a problem with quantity and strive for quality first, as I see reports done by high producers with errors in them. Thanks again for all the information.

Working for hospitals - Golden Oldie

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The transcription services are taking over hospital based transcription rapidly. Quality seems to be extremely poor for some services, but it is the bottom line that counts. Hospitals can save on insurance, PTO, retirement and such by using a service. It would be nice to know what the service is charging the hospital, but of course that will never be revealed, but I can guarantee the services are doing much better than the individual transcriptionists. The internet and all of the services have been the downfall of a once wonderful occupation. I would not do it all over again. Just my thoughts.

There are hospital jobs in my area for MTs... - wondering sm

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Just thought I might apply since trying to make money with the MTSO is not looking very promising. I also thought if I could get my foot in the door and they decide to lay me off later on then I could get something else at the hospital. Thanks for bringing this to my attention though, as I have often wondered how much the MTSOs charge the hospital. I kind of thought it must be 16 cents a line and that is why they pay us 8 cents, lol Okay, not funny!!

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