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Required lines per hour VR from companies - Cbk

Posted: Mar 25, 2014

I need some information on what companies require for LPH for VR. The place I work for requires an insane amount. I more than likely am going to get raked over the coals this week for not meeting my quota (it is over 500 lines an hour). Any information would be helpful to present to HR.

The place that gave you the 500 lph for VR - is nuts

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I am an extremely fast editor/transcriptionists and it is almost humanly impossible for most to get to 400 lph. I cannot believe unless the work is A letter perfect (and it is VR, right?) no way can a person be held to that. My place requires 250 and I can do that but have read here about others not being able to do the same. How is the VR where you work, good, bad, average? The company must not want to hold onto any MTs.

lines - Cbk

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We have a lot of ESL. The drafts can be really bad at times, sometimes not so much. A teaching hospital with lots of interns, PA-Cs, etc. They can be awful. But even some of the English guy are bad because they go at the speed of light and sluuuurrrrrr. I just can hardly stand it any more. I am so miserable I can't hardly stand myself!

I work for...SM - Peanut

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TTS, LLC in New Hampshire. Our SR is Escription by Nuance. The line quota per hour is 250.

Please help this lady out by giving the name of your company, the platform, and your hourly line quota. What her company is requiring of her (500) is outrageous. She needs some ammunition here.

line per hour - Cbk

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Thanks for you replay. You are right I need to pull out the big guns. I am on eScription. 520 lines an hour is our requirement.

Cbk, do you think maybe...SM - Old Anon

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they reversed the 2 and 5, so 520 should read 250? Is this written somewhere in your contract or job description as 520. By the way, can you name the company and/or platform? Again, a 520 lph is near impossible. Your problem really intrigues me, and I too would like to get to the bottom of this.

520 OR 250? - 16TRANSCRIBER

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I believe previous poster could be on to something. I, too, am inclined to believe it is really 250. Why an odd number like 520? Smart thinking.

520 lines - Cbk

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It is 520 lines an hour on average with 98.8% accuracy. 65 character line.

Lines Per hour - Cbk

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It is absolutely 520 lines on average per hour with 98.8% accuracy. In order to achieve this you have to put your speed control all the way up. We are on eScription. I work directly for a hospital (of course transcription department is owned by an outsource company). 65 character line.

Even with eScription, I work on that myself - to keep an average of 520

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is just literally impossible. I keep my foot on the pedal, fast forward as fast as it will go and there are some hours when you cannot achieve this. I know. My line yesterday for the day working this way averaged 468 lph and a little over for the 8 hour day. You can only speed eScription up so much, some dictators take longer to dictate, some faster. To even state over 500 an hour is a total nut job and I mean that. I would tell them to take that job and, well we all know the rest of that sentence.

520 lines/hour - 16TRANSCRIBER

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Wow, it is for real 520 lines/hour. I am fast, and I am good but not that fast and good. That is 520 lines/hour x8 hours = 4,160 lines/day. That is a lot. Years ago, we went by lines and I could do 2,500 - 3,000 lines/day on straight type. Now, we go by minutes and I do anywhere from 30-40 minutes/hour. 520 is too much!

Amphion requires total lines per pay period - see msg

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Amphion has a total line count produced required per pay period. 10,000 FT and 5000 PT. If you average out 10,000 total lines/80 hours worked in 2 weeks it equals 125 LPH. They look at the total lines per pay period, not hourly.

The 3 platforms used are Triton, iChart, and Escription. CPL differs per platform but I believe basic starting out CPL is 8/4.

So basically 125 LPH x 8 CPL = $10/hour

They are constantly hiring. Good luck.

total line count requred...but you can do more right? Is that not the minimum goal line - or is that the maximum? makes a difference. NM

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Yes, sorry, 10000 is minimum required. You can do as many as you can in 40 hours. - The more you do the more you make nm

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Since 520/hr is totally unrealistic, what do they do... - ...fire their whole staff every payday?

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I work on Editscript, a client that is more than 50% ESL (at least, the work we get!) and many jobs have edits on just about every single line. Numbered lists are almost always messed up, the VR doesn't know where sentences begin and end, other punctuation is incorrect, it chooses the wrong words (even when pronounced correctly), etc. Plus, you have the normal stuff you have to look up, demographics to verify and all the usual stuff as well. 375-425 is around the SUSTAINABLE maximum.

And here's what's more funny. Even the liars who sold VR to companies only dared to suggest that production would double, so that means your company is in effect saying that the average for STRAIGHT TRANSCRIPTION s/b 260 lph, and we all know that's not average production for any but the very experienced MTs unless working on very simple accounts, lots of templates etc. Most MTs on a typical account come in at around 225-230 lph for straight transcription.

520 lph average? That's totally bogus and YOUR COMPANY KNOWS IT.

Cbk. What's the name of the company?...SM - Old Anon

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If it's true they require 520 lph, tell us their name. Even Nuance who owns Escription SR does not require that kind of lph. I work for a company that does overflow for Nuance, and we are required to do 250. Maybe your HR Department or HIM director needs to contact Nuance to find out what the expected productivity of this platform is It is certainly not 520 lph. Let us know if you get this resolved.

Straight typing 250 LPH - Cbk

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I thought it was just me and that is was inadequate, but straight typing is 250 LPH. We get very little typing though we it is not counted against us. 520 VR, 250 typing, and yes our drafts are messed up all the time.

That's absolutely unacceptable and utterly unrealistic. - nm

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