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#104763 - 07/24/08 01:24 AM
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Ksilver14
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I am trying to get information on the standard quotas that determine pay scales.
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#104771 - 07/24/08 08:53 AM
Re: quotas
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baldymom
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That makes no sense. Quotas do not determine pay scales. Or am I missing something?
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#104773 - 07/24/08 08:58 AM
Re: quotas
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14tonks
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I'm not sure what you are asking.
First, there is virtually no "standard" anything in this business. If you are talking about bonus pay for production, then whether that is offered or not depends on where you are working. If it is offered, minimum acceptable and bonus production levels are set differently by everyone. Where there is a differential pay scale for employees, it is generally based on the MT's skill level and/or dictator or account difficulty rather than production quotas. As noted, a production bonus over base scale is a hit-or-miss thing.
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#104786 - 07/24/08 10:29 AM
Re: quotas
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Ksilver14
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I am a student and was under the impression that there were level I, II, III transcriptionists and each were defined by type of work and lines per day and then depending upon which level you were at determined your pay. Is this not so?
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#104787 - 07/24/08 10:43 AM
Re: quotas
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14tonks
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Bigger companies do often have different levels of work to which an MT is assigned. How they are numbered, how they are defined, and whether level is also used to set a production quota, if any, varies wildly from company to company. If you are a student, you are going to be in line for only entry-level work when you finally start to look for a job, possibly only entry level clinical rather than acute care work, depending on what school you are attending, so none of this would be immediately relevant to you. By the time you are qualified to command a higher level of work and pay, you will have had time to learn something about both your initial company and the industry in general, and can shop around for a different job if you aren't happy with the way your current employer's work-type ladder is set up.
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#104801 - 07/24/08 12:41 PM
Re: quotas
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Ksilver14
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I know I would be starting at entry level just curious to know the different levels and what is expected.
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#104817 - 07/24/08 02:22 PM
Re: quotas
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14tonks
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As a very general thing, acute care is considered to require more knowledge than straight clinical dictation, although the exact accounts, dictation types, and dictators on each account can make a lot of difference. Within acute care, you need to be able to do all specialties and all standard document types including surgical reports to qualify for a higher level. Included in that is being able to sort scrambled dictation correctly under the correct headings versus what it might have been dictated under by a disorganized dictator. If you can also handle all the more exotic specialty special procedure reports of any kind, that's a plus. If you can handle any and all ESL accents, that's a plus. If you can almost always figure out what the total mumblers and speed talkers, ESL or native English speakers, must have been saying, that's a plus. If you can recognize and correctly flag to the dictator's attention all medical discrepancies in the dictation, that's a plus. On other than strict verbatim accounts, if you can convert the terminally incoherent into people who can apparently construct an English sentence, and do it without in any way changing the meaning of their words, that's a plus. On all account types and at every level you generally need to produce a minimum number of lines per day and maintain a very high level of accuracy without leaving too many blanks that others can fill correctly in order to stay employed. Those are the general issues that are considered when setting the difficulty level for an account and the compensation level for an MT.
No one expects a total newbie to be good at very much of that. That's why many companies will hire no one with less than two years of experience doing all acute care work types or graduates of one of the few schools they feel provide a level of education almost equivalent to having that experience. If you see a position advertised as requiring more than two years of experience, you can be pretty sure no new graduate is going to be considered under any circumstances, even if she was top of her class at the best school in the country. (And if you want to know if you're currently in a good school, my guess would be that you're not. The good schools provide their students with a good orientation to the MT industry along with everything else they teach.)
Edited by 14tonks (07/24/08 02:54 PM)
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#104827 - 07/24/08 03:52 PM
Re: quotas
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LTR
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For a general definition of the levels, I would refer you to Appendix C of the BOS 2 or Appendix D of the BOS 3. That gives you a general idea of what AHDI expects at the three levels they define.
Employers can do whatever they want and pay whatever they want. They can have as many or as few levels as they choose. At my company you are either a transcriptionist or a QA--two levels only.
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#104832 - 07/24/08 04:14 PM
Re: quotas
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14tonks
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Even the BOS offers only 2 levels for MT, which basically boils down to someone who can do just simple clinical work and/or needs extensive QA to fill in her blanks on anything more demanding and someone who knows enough about acute care to fly solo on a lot of different work types and dictators. Their level 3 job description is for someone who never or virtually never actually transcribes. OTOH, some of the nationals at various times have had a large number of different work levels, at least theoretically. There are also a lot of complaints that no matter how bad the dictator or the account, somehow it never gets classified as requiring a higher rate of compensation.
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#105949 - 08/02/08 02:11 PM
Re: quotas
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Julie W8
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I am a student and was under the impression that there were level I, II, III transcriptionists and each were defined by type of work and lines per day and then depending upon which level you were at determined your pay. Is this not so?
The levels I think you're referring to were defined by the Hay Group study done back umm... in the late 90s, I believe.
They were never presented or accepted as a standard. Like most things AAMT/AHDI/MTIA does, they were a definition and a suggestion. Not all companies or facilities accepted them or use them.
Some companies have level definitions and base their pay scale on experience, account/dictator difficulty, TAT requirements, etc.
You'll find the answer to most questions of this type is: there are no standards.
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