In my opinion a medical service provider that has a relationship with a collection agency should place accounts on a monthly basis at a bare minimum.
Medical service providers just by the nature of their design have patient accounts that fall into the collection criteria every day.
Unfortunately do to various reasons many medical service providers attempt to hold on to their delinquent patient accounts far too long.
I sense a general feeling that the medical facilities administrative staff beli...
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I have been in the collections industry for 20 years since 1989.
My first job was with a very large collection agency called Debt Collectors Incorporated aka DCI which was the prototype for the modern collection agency.
I have worked in all facets of the collections industry from Training Collectors, Policy Development, IT Infrastructure, Management, Ownership, and Work from Home Telecommuting Technologies Beta testing.
My greatest areas of expertise are in medical and retail collections as well as debt buying.
I am happily married and have 4 kids with my wife Roberta Hyter and we live in Houston, Texas.
Current projects that I am working on besides building my medical clientele base is a collections self help/success book entitled " The Quintessential Collector" due out on Amazon.com in mid 2010.
It has been my dream to travel around the country speaking at various collection agencies to collectors about how they can improve our industry and themselves.
I abhor the mistreatment of people who owe money and I know "that there but by the grace of God go I" debt can happen to anyone.
I believe if you can show a person that you sincerely want to help them resolve their debt then they will be much more motivated to try and get the bill resolved.
Not everyone in the collections industry sees things my way but all collection agencies are concerned about excessive complaints and frivilous law suits and most of these can be avoided with a little TLC.
