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Pay rate - Rad MT - radmt

Posted: Jul 11, 2011

What a shock to wake up this morning and realize the almighty "Q" has just sent me hurling into bancruptcy! My husband lost his $75,000/year job 3 months ago and just found another but only making $8.50/hour. As we don't live beyond our means, we thought that would at least let us catch up on the major bills. But now I'm going from $1.65 a report to $1.20 a report. That's a MAJOR cut in pay ($1,000 to $3,000 PER MONTH). This is devastating and I feel so betrayed. It's everything I can do to sit here and make one more dime for this wicked, wicked company.

Yikes..not to be nosy..but a PAY cut of 1000 to 3000? - how many reports do you do??

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100 to 300 reports a day??
You were earning between 165 to 395 dollars per day?

Like I said...yikes!

Sorry - that was supposed to be $1,000-$2,000. - radmt

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Didn't realize the error until your reply but yes I do anywhere from 100 (on a bad day) to 300 reports a day.

wow..impressive...but still yikes...that is a pretty severe pay cut - and acute care is the wrong game, if RT makes that

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100-300 Jobs Daily - Stella

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Wow, how do you do that? The account I'm on has very few short reports, fewer normals, and lots of MRIs, CT scans, etc. that average 2-4 minutes in length. No way I could do more than 100 per day!!!

100-300 jobs daily - kittykat

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I used to do that, too, utill I went to 2nd shift because days was running out of work all the time. I am sorry I went to 2nd. We have all the residents and big CT's and MRI's and special procedures. When our CCM posts the backlog with reports and minutes, the reports are all under 1 minute, but here on afternoons one time I had 13 jobs that were 6-7 minutes and get screwed big time. I am the one who complains when someone does part of a report with many blanks and it comes to me to fill in the blanks and finish the report. That person does not know their stuff. I can fill in the blanks 99% of the time. This sucks big time.

Lots of EKGs on my main account. - radmt

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I mainly type Cardiology and my main account includes lots of EKGs every day, which are a sentence or two usually.

Sorry but don't feel your pain - Anon

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RadMT - So if we give you an average of 200 jobs a day (you said 100-300 a day, so I'm going with 200 average) working 8-hour days, at your previous pay rate you were making $41.25 an hour.

Sorry, but that is just ludicrous.

I'm sorry anyone out there in the workforce has to be laid off, fired, or take a pay cut, but in some cases I can certainly see the employer's side of things.

If you were making that much before this pay cut, you should be thankful you got away with it for as long as you did.

IMO, you will still be making more-than-reasonable pay at the new pay rate - especially when so many MTs claim they aren't even making minimum wage.

pay scales - jrb

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It is crazy, look at the pay scale differences. Tier one gets 0.040 but Rad get 1.2 and Pathology gets 2.0. Now is Rad and Path making that per report or per line? either way, so much more money than a tier 1. That is just crazy. I have done both Rad and Path, guess I need to look back into doing them again.

Rad is per report - Rojo

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You're right, its still more than 0.04 per line as most rad reports are short. I didn't get hit so bad as I was getting only 1.25 per report anyway, so I lose 0.05 per report, with only 1 client assigned to me and averaging less than 300 reports even available and coming into my queue every week let alone every day, I haven't made enough money in a year. thank goodness my husband still has a good paying job, yet even his job is giving him less hours than just a couple years ago. :(

Whaaa? - anon

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If a 25% cut in pay per month means a decrease of between $1000 to $3000 a month, that means before the pay cut you were making between $4000 to $12000 a month. I find that more than a little hard to believe.

Not likely - just me

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I could be wrong but years ago MQ capped rad at 1.35 a report. One of the only ways to get that high of a production rate is if the account they are working on is still by C-phone and they can go in by dictator and get all the easy,short reports first. It is a very underhanded way to do business and even worse then cherry picking.

Pay rate - rad MT - kittykat

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Yes, I know what you mean. I am tired of this mess. What a blow. I too do rad and I do not know what I am going to do. First they take the incentive away, then shift dif from afternoons, now this. I do not think the CCM's have any balls. I am assuming they used to be MT's at one time and I guess they decide to go with the flow and keep their jobs. Do they ever stick up for us? This is BS!

Totally agree - radmt

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The CCMs lost their balls a long time ago. Mine has never been an MT so not only does she have no clue what it's like, I'm quite sure she doesn't care. She could care less what we deal with in our personal lives. She's difficult to deal with to say the least. I for one have not beeg a very good employee today. I just don't give a you know what anymore. I'm seriously thinking about going on disability before they change my approved income at The Hartford, since I do have a medical condition that would probably qualify. Any suggestions on that?

Totally agree - kittykat

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I am also in a crappy mood. I guess you know they are moving all Rad to one place, like before, ha ha. I am forever running out of work and I asked if we would get more work, no answer yet. I am sick and tired now of using my PTO for extra pay, when my CCM is always on PTO. That sucks. I am raising all kinds of he** with e-mails today and hope I get fired, for whatever reason, I just got 100% audit, but they are free to find a reason. My unemployment income will be for the last year or so and not for the future and then I will find something else. This really sucks. I wish I could go on disability, but you cannot work during that time and I have to work.

OK, check into this for disability - Rojo

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Just to be clear, I have checked into this a little in my State of Michigan. I have a bulging disc, a symptomatic Tarlov cyst on S3 nerve root, neuroma in my left foot and Meniere's disease. Each of these individually are not enough to disable me, but I have made an appointment with my doctor to discuss him putting me on permanent disability. Check with your State DHS/welfare office. Some states offer interim disability money to people waiting to meet the 1 year no work requirement for federal SSDI. It is not something that is advertised, but it is worth checking into.

Not flamin' you, but I don't feel sorry for you either. - apparently you are still

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out-earning the majority of us (working just as hard as you are) by ten-fold. Good luck.

Really!!! She's losing more than I have been able to make in a month. - somethings out of whack nm

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I'm feeling a bit flamed nonetheless. - radmt

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I've been with this company for more than 10 years and transcribing for 20. I earned that rate of pay. Sorry that apparently you weren't earning as much - not my fault. Sounds as if you think MQ was justified in its actions. Keep siding with them and see where it gets you - screwed just like the rest of us.

I'm kinda feeling screwed; you're making a lot more than me tho I've been at - it longer and here longer nm

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1.20 a report is good for RAD trans - SM

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IF you look around at what RAD trans are getting paid it is between 75 cents a report to 1 dollar!!!

1.20 a report - kittykat

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I have never seen a rad report at 75 cents. The ones I have seen are at least 1.50. And when you get one long report after another, it is disheartening. You just plug along and hope you run into a few short ones to make it up. And yes, even after 20 years at this, I still have to look things up, when you have special procedures you have new catheters, instruments, drugs, etc.

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