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question about canned text - sm

Posted: Oct 18, 2011

I am looking at possibly accepting a position that has most typing full reports, but also has "canned texts" that pay 3.5 cpl. Is this a normal pay offered? If I have a lot of canned text reports can I make a decent wage? Is there anything to know about canned texts that would make me reconsider? Thanks for the advice.

Well that depends on the account. - Think this way.

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How much of the reports really are canned text? Do all the doctors use this? Is it the majority of the reports in total lines?

Some companies do not pay for this, some 1 cpl. I still get the full pay for my canned text, which is sweet some days.

The 3.5 cpl would not be too bad IF you could use your own canned text on many reports, expanded type, etc. Is it a hard account? Difficult dictators (and I don't just mean ESL)? Since the 3.5 cpl takes 1/2 of what you earn on this lines, the rest of the dictation, expanded type, etc. would have to make it worth my time to agree to it. This is one of those situations where it might sound bad, but could be great. You will never know until you try it, but I would not let it scare me. You might be passing up a great deal. I am thinking it must be pretty easy since they reduced the pay on the canned text. You never know. What is the pay for the line count on the other dictated lines? Can you make that work for you?

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