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Unpaid ADT/CC information experiment - sm

Posted: May 20, 2015

So my experiement yielded, and this is a consevative estimate because I may have forgotten to track sometimes and, of course, by actually tracking cut my prouction way down.. I had 1093 characters or 16.81 lines rounded up to 17, which is $1.36 a day and roughly 346.8 dollars a year based on an estimated 8 cents a line and 51 weeks working. In the personal scheme of things, not a heck of a lot but it is 2-3 electric bills for me..but more importantly, multiply that bill by all the transciptionists and they are saving a ton of money..Not to mention I have worked on accounts that require a heck of a lot more ADT entering.. and the other question I have is. With all this technology, why can't the program differentiate between what we edit and characters typed. Any keystroke I have to make to fix anything, should be paid at a transcription rate not an edit rate. I know I'm ranting, but it is "Happy" MT week, right?

Unpaid ADT/CC info - tlf

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It's awesome that you did this. Money is money, and it's our money they're keeping, and we are losing. It all adds up. I have always thought we should get paid for anything we enter into ADT and CCs! They stink!

unpaid work - anon

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That 346.8 grows significantly larger when you add to it say 1-2 hours per week of unpaid work we are required to do. Then multiple all of that times the number of transcriptionists. Boggles the mind. MTSOs are THIEVES!

any ideas how to proceed from here, this has to - be illegal

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especially when I know there are accounts where everything has to be manually entered right down to CC, even if it is in the database, has to be typed.

Is that 17 lines per 8-hour period? - sm

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I believe they do add an extra line per report. You can see this if you send a blank job with no text in it, e.g. a No Dictation job.

yes per 8 hrs - nm

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Oh OK..well then that is fair in the end - TKU

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Except - sm

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When I do a word check for lines v their count, yes it is higher but not an entire line higher, usually only a couple of characters.

What I heard - Unsure if true

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The ADT is included as part of our wage. For example, say we get paid 7 cpl base rate. 0.2 cpl (just throwing a number out) of that is compensation for ADT. Basically, you would be getting paid 6.8 cpl if ADT never existed. With this considered, you actually get overpaid for the ADT on really long reports.

Not what we were told when we were hired. - sm

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My paperwork said I was being paid X cpl for all characters and spaces typed. Then while training on Fluency, I found out, oh by the way, that doesn't include anything you have to type manually in the ADT or CCs. My contract didn't say that though. It said all characters typed including spaces, so I really think they are violating the contract. Not to mention, what are the legalities for expecting employees to do work for free, especially critical work that they are held responsible for & can be fired for, that actually takes way longer than the same amount of characters in a report? But doing it for free! It doesn't make any sense.

I've looked at No Dictation jobs and only got like 0.3 lines or - sm

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whatever the exact count was for typing No Dictation in the body. No freebies.

You're not supposed to type anything in the body. - at least on my accounts

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Unless CP says otherwise, you just change the work type to No Dictation and send it on.

When I trained on DQS, that's what we were told to do too. - NM

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How long ago was that? - Per DQS Standards and Guidelines

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Pg 14: "If there is no dictation for a report, you should:
1. Verify you are at the end of the dictation by checking your audio slider.
2. Change the work type to the No Dictation work type.
3. Upload the job. This process does not require the report to be sent to QA manually."

Copy/paste and do a count in Word and compare. They - do not add anything. SM

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I type full names and addresses in CCs, which of course you have to Google and verify, not to mention manually typing patient info in the ADT, etc., all day long. We do not get paid for any of those strokes or that time, yet we can be fired for getting it wrong.

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