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Question re Indep Contracting - Cheri

Posted: Feb 11, 2012

Good morning I've been an MT for just over two years now and have always been an IC working for a transcription company until recently when a local doctor hired me as an employee to do his transcription. I work from home, certain established hours, and he pays me hourly and takes out taxes etc. Now I've been contacted by another local doctor to do his transcription, but he wants me to be an IC and pay me by the line - I will have to keep my own line count and send an invoice. All that is fine, but I'm a little concerned about liability since I have never worked without an "umbrella" so to speak. Can anyone offer me suggestions with regard to this? Should I join AHDI? Lastly, what would be the best way to keep the line count? I thought I would use Word's "character count with spaces then divide by 65.

Thanks so much!

Insurance - BeenThere

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You can purchase errors and omissions insurance for liability purposes unless, of course, you are covered by your employer.

E&O insurance - Cheri

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I do have the necessary coverage under the employer, but he wouldn't cover my work for another doctor ... good idea to look into E&O insurance.

thanks!

There are several line count programs - Glenn

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just google line count software. Some of them can be set up to count all the lines in your transcribed documents and prepare the invoice all in one process. There are free ones, but the paid programs have more features.

Line count software - Cheri

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Thanks for the advice. I will look into E&O insurance and various line count software.

Appreciate it!

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