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4 Tips Your Office Can Use To Minimiz e Bad Debt
4 Tips Your
OfficeCan Use
To Minimize Bad Debt
#1 Gather demographic data Collect the patient's date of birth, current address, Social Security number, phone number, driver's license number, and email.
Photocopy a driver's
#2
photo identification
license or some other
…allowing contact via phone, letter, fax, cell phone and text regarding any delinquent payments.
#3 Have Patients/Customers sign a consent form…
Acquisition of a
Collect as Much as You Can,Right Away
Ask the Patient or Customer to cover the co-pay amount immediately.
#4
Put these strategies together and you reduce your outstanding receivables while
developing loyal patients.
