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Battle of the blanks - mt2north

Posted: Aug 17, 2014

I wonder if this is their way of seeing who leaves the most blanks and those who do will be the first to be let go when they choose to have another lay-off. We get an email from our TSM showing our Ultipro numbers and the percentage of blanks by each MT plus the number of reports done.

That is what I was thinking, too - Why not reward those

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who don't leave many blanks instead of those who can bring theirs down the most? We had some people at 47% blanks

LEAVING BLANKS - oldie but goodie

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If you had the dictators I have you would be leaving blanks too. They are crappy, cannot speak English, do not KNOW the English language, pause sometimes minutes long, and then REPEAT what they have already said many times throughout the report.

I DO have dictators EXACTLY like yours - I just dont leave 47%

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blanks. I have some of the worst dictators in my 30+ years of doing this, but I have 15% blanks which I thought was high until I saw some of the 50%-ers.

the reason for near 50% - a.j.

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Being a proofer, and being on accounts where I am required to insert blanks, can't get around that one

Me too....I have some of those accounts sm - rave

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They require you to leave a blank and note if the dictator references a physician or facility not in the database, which is VERY often. I wish they would take that off the CP because almost 99% of the time you can find the person referenced on Google. I also have some dictators that get distracted and state lots of discrepancies. Those 2 things are the reason for most of my blanks.

theres also a reward for that too. I won a card by beign - in the top 100 for lowest

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blanks in the company.

Good luck!!

Why do you have the lowest blanks? - lets analyze this, shall we?

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Do you have accounts where you are not REQUIRED to leave a blank for physician names? Some accounts allow you to phonetically spell them.

Do you have a primary account, even a primary grouping, or are you in the cesspool?

Are you on the accounts with the very poor audio, with the known issues but never get resolved?

Don't go acting like you are so much better than the rest of us. You got LUCKY... that is all!

Maybe she is just that good - Geesh!

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You sound like the girls with C averages who used to jump me for getting an A on a test.

I didnt take it personally. I did point out below that I was - only mentioning that I won a card

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because someone above said there should be a contest for lowest blanks, not reduction of blanks.

Thanks for the support :)

My post was in response to the above one where the poster - said there should be a contest

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for the lowest blanks not the reduction of blanks. I was pointing out there is a contest for this.

lowest blanks - phatty

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I agree with you 100%. I often wonder about 2% blanks. There have been MANY, MANY times I have had to leave a blank because of poor audio and the issue never gets resolved. As a matter of fact, I get taken off accounts, transferred to another team on a regular basis. Many of the reports I send to QA will be left blank by QA.

You know, I wish there was some way we could all pull together for each other. If a person has 30% blanks, a person that has far less should not criticize unless you are doing the EXACT SAME DICTATORS.

I wish this company would just get down to brass tacks and try to help ALL of their employees without all the contests and constant auditing!!!

I figure that will be the next requirement to join 99.6%. - dnr

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I'm one of those with 33%, but 95% of those are due to the client's demands - Leave a blank unless the doctor's name is in the database or spelled, plus various discrepancies, plus not being allowed to phonetically spell names and places if you cannot document. >;-o

My blanks percentage has not changed one bit. I put forth full effort with each report.

The people I wonder about are those who were at 50% and now magically are at less than 10%.

Pay should be increased - JustMe

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Actually, it should be just the opposite. The HDSs with the most blanks are obviously on the accts with the worst sound, worst dictators, etc. and should be rewarded battle pay for the garbage they have to listen to all day.

are you serious? - reward for most blanks?

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There is one person with 86.1% blanks! Thats less than 14% of their work without a blank and you attribute that to the worst dictators? I attribute that to an unskilled, lazy transcriptionist!

I'd suggest "skilled, efficient transcriptionist" - Val

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Had a Chinese doctor, fresh off the plane, do an op. Had no reference material. Had no clue what he was saying for half the report. He got at least a blank in every line. I'm not spending another 15 to 30 seconds per hard to hear area for 4 cents a line.

lowest blanks - phatty

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Is this person just starting out as a transcriptionist? Maybe that is the case. Might not be lazy, but definitely unskilled. One needs lots of experience to transcribe/edit this work successfully. How did that person get through the test to get hired????

what does blanks contest show? - MT

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I'm not quite sure how this is interpreted. If you do 10 reports and have 10 blanks in 1 report and 0 blanks in the rest, are your stats better than if you do 10 jobs and have 1 blank in each job?

blanks % - MT

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I guess it just shows total blanks to total jobs typed.

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