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pay per pt vs lines - katmt
Posted: May 23, 2012
i transcribe for a local physician and get paid per patient (and not very much!) instead of by the line. i've been doing this for a couple of years now and just cannot get used to not being paid by the line.....it's like i just eat, sleep and breathe by the line!!! and i cannot even get the physician to even try to understand how being paid by the line works. needless to say, there is a huge discrepancy in pay between per patient and lines and even more so when i've transcribed 800 to 1200 lines a day, which i consider to be a fair amount of work and which my brain senses as "done for the day!", it sometimes is not even close to being all of the patients for a day transcribed; so.....i guess i was just needing some encouragement maybe or something.....and i haven't felt good at all for the past few days (flu-type illness) which is adding to the way i'm feeling this morning. i am very thankful for my job though because it does provide a steady income and jobs are very hard to find! so anyway, just thank you for listening!
Ask him for a ?% increase on each patient - ohiocarole
[ In Reply To ..]since he doesn't or won't understand the concept of line count. You'll have to figure the amount out yourself - what you feel is fair and what won't send him out looking for another transcriptionist.
Love my Doc - MT
[ In Reply To ..]I have been transcribing for a local doc for the past 10 years and am in the same boat as you when it comes to pay. He refuses to pay by the line and will ONLY pay per report. Also like you, I don't get much per report. BUT...I have found that I make more with his work than I have with any MTSO I have ever worked for. His work is easy and templated and he is very clear, so I can go fast. Not sure if your doc is the same way.
I used to work for this doc full time but last year he down-sized his practice so now there is not enough work for full time for me. There were many times over the past 10 years when I felt a bit discouraged too, wishing he would pay a bit more. Many days I was also swamped with tons of work.
Anyway, now that I have to work for an MTSO I am seeing how fortunate I was over the past 10 years because now I am making minimum wage and have to stick to a strict schedule.
I don't know if any of that helped, but I just wanted to say I kind of understand where you're coming from and I really hope you feel better soon :)
paid by report as well - make it work for you
[ In Reply To ..]I am also paid by the report, but my doc provided me with a lot of templates when I started with him. He pays me a flat fee and it works out to 7 cpl. My production is always $30/hr or more, though, and I have a lot of flexibility in the TAT (he asks for a week TAT, I give 3 days).
If you have done 1200 lines in a day, look at what you have earned and decide if that is a liveable wage. What does it break down per hour? per line? Are you making good use of an abbreviation expander? Can you template his most common phrases? Maybe you need to be working smarter and/or maybe you need to raise your rate to one you can live with.
Don't get so stuck in getting paid per report IF it is a liveable wage. I have been paid by the page, the report, the line defined as 65 characters WITH spaces, the line as defined as 55 characters WITHOUT spaces...As long as your pay at the end of the day works for you, you can make it work.
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