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How many lines do you edit per payperiod? - Just Nosey

Posted: May 08, 2011

I was reading somewhere on here where FastChart said one of their VR editors edited 53,000 in a payperiod!!

My pay period's every 14 days, or 80 hours, - and my goal is about

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26-28K with fairly heavy editing on average. 53,000 seems credible for an 80-hour pay period on work that requires very little editing. Speed would be limited to ability to read as fast as a chipmunk can chatter. :)

edited lines - karl

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I hope they are still alive and not blind. I average 2700 lines a day x14 or some 37,800 lines and at 4.5 cpl you have to move for sure to make a living.

Every time I read one of these, it makes me want - to cry. I cannot do but

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about half of that amount because of poor ASR and tediousness of specialty. If I am having a decent day, then we run out of work and I get put on a helper pool and production screeches to a halt. At least I do make a little more than 4.5 cpl. I guess that is something.

I don't understand it either, unless... - starzzz

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they don't have 99% or higher quality checks (ver batim), which is time consuming. We have had VR for 5 years. I work for a hospital with 50+ transcriptionists and no one is making that kind of line count. The average is 8000 lines per 40-hour week (actually 37.5-hour week because of 0.5 hour per day allowed for breaks). We have a lot of docs who will never go on VR, however, because of their dictation habits (refuse to enunciate, heavy accents, etc.). I feel fortunate to have a management group who understands that not all dictation is created equal. Each report I type, I type with the knowledge that my supervisor could quality check it (that means if the doctor says "patient" and VR expands it as "the patient" it MUST BE corrected, or that is counted against our quality. We are not allowed to change grammar or anything else that does not affect the context (however, we are allowed to correct 'he' to 'she' etc). I hope I never have to go back to working for a service, where for the most part quantity trumps quality.

Starzzz, I'm sure your company has good reasons for - setting that type of standard, but my MTSO

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wants finished SR to read pretty much as if we had transcribed from scratch, including articles, such as "the" and "a." Obviously, none of my accounts is verbatim, and our job is to improve on what SR can accomplish. I think you'll agree this is also a fairly high quality standard even if it is set by a service. Minimum QA is 98%, tho, not 99%.

We also have a lot of difficult dictators, so are paid a bit above average line rates to offset that a bit, and our minimum line requirement per 40-hour week is 1500 for whatever combo of TX and SR. Your post was an eye-opener for what verbatim can mean for production; I'd always assumed verbatim would mean faster, but apparently having to bounce around reports picking off stray articles takes at least as much of your time as adding them does of mine.

Forget the crying, honey, and get a little faster today instead. - Seriously, tedious is GOOD! That means

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repetition, including the same errors repeated all day long. Automate those corrections with your expander and give them 2 to 3-character abbreviations at most.

Poor SR: When SR messes up most of a dictator's standard blurb/sentence/paragraph/PE/? every time, treat it as one correction by deleting the whole thing and replacing with the standard version in your expander or template storage. Put markers in it where the dictation tends to vary so you can jump in and customize quickly. I have expander entries that delete AND insert the correct versions with just a couple of keystrokes. Your company may not want you doing that? Do it anyway and wait to see if anybody ever mentions it. Really. I did it for years BEFORE my current company actually broke down and okayed it officially because SR just wasn't improving.

Just moving from correction to correction is a major time-sucker. If a line has 3 (2?) or more, delete the entire line or sentence with your 1-character entry for that and replace it using stock phrases in storage ("the patient reports that" "for the past 2 days" "the pain has been"). Much faster than bunny-hop-hop-hop, delete, type, bunny-hop-hop-hop-hop-hop, etc.

Make short forms for your navigation keystrokes too. For instance, 1 keystroke+space bar at most to jump to the next marker, jump to the end of a sentence, attach the cursor to the voice, etc.

BTW, your "more than 4.5" no doubt reflects the above-average difficulty of your work but very possibly does not make up for it. Underpay for SR is endemic these days. I believe rates will have to improve eventually, but right now most of us are bailing away just to keep the boat afloat.

Rates - No way!

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No way in heck I would edit for less than 5 cents.. I see ads for 3 cents.. really? Are you kidding me? Even being able to do 500+ editing lines an hour at 3 cents, I'd go work at McDonalds. That's nuts. There are companies that pay 5, 5.5 and 6 cents a line for editing. They don't have to advertise because they have us and we aren't leaving.

I'm at 4 cents and it's killing me - LTDN

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That's still lower than what my regular pay for typing would be "37,800". I type arou - 23,000-25,000 x10 to 12 days not x14

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so that would still be a cut in pay for me, depending on what the rate of pay is. The last job I worked at VR paid 5 cents a line, I would have to VR 4600 lines to 5000 lines a day x10 to 12 days to make my normal pay. That ain't gonna happen and who wants to work 14 days a pay period. When do you take a day off????? Heck, on a good day, I can type 2700 to 3000 lines depending on the physicians that I get.

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