Practice Management Alert

Informing patients of non-payment consequences is key.Practices across the country are finding that more and more patients are unable, or unwilling, to pay their bills. That means you need to step up your collections efforts if you're going to collect from your patients who have outstanding balances. You need to ensure your collection policies are written down and that you inform your patients of the steps your practice will take if they do not pay their bills. Using a final collections letter like this one from Ivonne Atanacio, certified billing and coding specialist for Sports Medicine Orthopeadics Center in Livingston, N.J., can help increase your patient collection success. This letter is the final collections letter "our office uses to make sure that we are 100 percent covered in the event we need to send the account to collections," Atanacio says. "Patients in our office are very well informed of the [...]