My Domestic Church Daily Clips 10/02/2009

• Adjusters Asia – Legal & Medical Transcription – Overseas OffshoreThis was funny! For the past few years wages for medical transcriptionists have been stagnant due to overseas competition. In fact I was happy to find a place that would pay between 8 and 10 cents a line! This particular overseas service only charges 6 cents a line- but when I looked at the cons, I noted that “punctuation and grammar” had to be inserted!! Too funny!

  You get what you pay for I guess!tags: medicaltranscription

  • How much does it cost?
    Currently, the cost of full-time, offshore (overseas)
    legal and medical transcription, that is, a volume of work equal
    to the workload of one full-time transcriptionist, averages approximately
    US-$600.00 per month.
    More precisely, the billing method is based on
    a 65-character line – including spaces – with each line billed at
    US-$.06 (6 cents). At US-$600.00 per month, this would equate to
    10,000 lines (650,000 characters) of transcribed data per month,
    or 500 lines (32,500 characters) per day based on a 20-day work
    month.
    Do the math yourself. Count the number of transcribed
    lines (65 characters) completed daily, and then multiply this figure
    by 6 cents.
    What are the advantages of offshore legal and
    medical transcription?
    • Low Costs
    • Pay only for the actual work performed
    • Take holidays and pay nothing
    • No overtime costs to pay
    • No taxes to pay
    • No employee benefits to pay
    • No advertising/recruiting costs to pay
    • Transcribed files are proof-read by a supervisor
      before being returned

    What are the disadvantages of overseas medical
    and legal transcription?

    • Because the transciptionist is located offshore
      – India or the Philippines – instantaneous changes to the dictated
      materials is not an option, although this can be done in your
      own word-processing programs before printing the work
    • Legal and medical transcriptionists type only
      what is contained in the recorded materials (no guessing and no
      creative gap-filling)
    • Punctuation, grammar must be inserted in your
      dictation

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