BC Advantage - 2017 Issue 4

5 Tips for Handling Patients Who Don't Pay

Dealing with past due accounts is never easy within any industry. In healthcare, the increased occurrence of high deductible health plans (HDHP's) and increasing healthcare costs have pushed practices and hospitals to develop new and more creative methods for collecting payments from patients. If your practice has not explored new options for practice collections and payment management, the need for new policies may not be something you can continue to ignore.According to a 2016 article in Becker's Hospital Review, 62 percent of participants in a recent survey reported serious concern about their ability to pay for medical...

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