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In the end, you may very well be better off outsourcing your medical or dental accounts receivables to one of the new medical and dental collection agency/accounts payable processing centers. According to the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), your medical or dental billing notices fall under essentially the same regulations as a mega-bank's car loan collections.
Real-World Medical and Dental Debt Collection Law Quandaries
Anne, a secretary at Westville Orthopedic Associates, calls up a patient who just turned 18, to remind him of an outstanding copayment. The patient's mother answers the telephone. Should Anne:
1. Take the issue of the co-payment up with the patient's mother?
2. Leave a message with the patient's mother to remind the patient of the outstanding co-payment?
3. Leave a message for the patient to call the Westville Orthopedic Associates back?
4. Say she will call back later and quickly hang up?
All but one of the four options above will be a violation of federal debt collections law. Can you guess which one?
The correct course of action is option number 3. Why are the others illegal?
Look at each of the options above:
1. It is illegal to disclose a debt to a third party.
2. See number one; remember that messages regarding a debt are essentially disclosures to a third party.
3. This is the only suitable course of action.
4. The FDCPA requires all creditors to identify themselves when making a call. While you can't say what you are calling about, you must say the name of your business before hanging up.
Not ready for your medical or dental practice to become a law practice? You can get around medical and dental collection law matters by outsourcing the entire job to a professional medical or dental accounts receivable processor or medical collection agency. This option also has the benefit of saving your staff a lot of work.
After all, not only is your medical or dental practice not a law practice, it's not an accounts department, either.
About the Author
Joel Walsh has written more tips on debt collection law: http://www.debt-collection-laws.com>debt collection law
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