Healthcare Collections
Revenue cycles are becoming increasingly complex. Outsourcing multiple aspects of your business office to specialized vendors is now the norm and partnering with the right vendor is mission critical. Your need for excellence in patient treatment continues in our professional approach to recovering your delinquent receivables. Our company has specialized in healthcare collections since 1981 and our patient centered approach will prove to be the best model for your operations.
Forward Thinking
Risk mitigation has always been at the forefront of our operations. We continuously train our agents and staff on all regulations governing healthcare collections and keep our management up to date on proposed rules that may find their way to our collection floor.
In our current healthcare environment, patients are being given more choices than ever in who they choose for their medical services. Our organization understands the value in brand preservation. Our professional agents work with patients to find an amicable resolution to their accounts with retention at the core of their approach.
Our customized debt negotiating tools allow patients to participate in the mediation of their payment plans, one time settlements, and pay offs. Allowing patients to have more control of their payment options increases the likelihood a resolution will be found.
An increasing number of individuals prefer to communicate through means other than a live, one on one call. Our site allows for secure communication between the consumer and one of our live agents. Giving consumers options in their ability to communicate with our office increases the likelihood of a successful contact.
Our goal is to resolve all disputes and consumer complaints prior to any escalation. Our site allows consumers the ability to file disputes and complaints varying from services rendered to consumer treatment after default.
Our Services
Making assumptions on an individual’s ability to pay at the time of account placement is shortsighted. Our approach encompasses a short-term approach to collection but also builds in a long-term approach as everyone’s financial situation changes. We believe that actively monitoring credit reports and social media accounts leads to the identification of these changes and the opportunity for account resolution.
Mistakes happen, but so does fraud and abuse. Our account workflow begins with a thorough data scrub to ensure that we are working with the best information possible.
Initial validation notices, and later demand letters, are sent to consumers during the collection process. In addition, payment plan reminder letters are also mailed along with delinquent payment agreement letters in the instance a default occurs.
Our approach to collection calls center around the consumers need for respect and dignity as well as your need for account resolution. Our calls move from advisory in nature at the beginning of collections, to a more demanding approach towards the end of the life cycle.
We want to make sure our efforts in fair credit reporting are done so in an effective and thorough manner. When lawful, our agency reports delinquent accounts to multiple credit reporting bureaus to ensure your accounts are represented to the best of their ability.
While we understand the usefulness of big data, our agency does not segment accounts based on any scoring models. Our scoring gives our professionals insight into the individual they are approaching and how they may best find a workable solution. The proprietary model we utilize is unlike most on the market in that it pulls actual credit data rather than scores based on socioeconomic information.
Our agents go above and beyond in their attempts to locate additional information on your accounts. Our agents utilize all methods of online searches including social media, state and local government sites, professional certifications, and many more.
Through our partnerships with multiple data vendors, our agency identifies and verifies deceased individuals in real time. Time is critical when identifying available paths to payment after an individual passes away. Our agency has the infrastructure and resources needed to identify probates quickly to secure a path to payment.
Our commitment to transparency and consumer treatment is seen through our thoroughness in call recording and archiving. All calls are recorded in office, encrypted, and archived for years in the instance a client audit is requested.
Our overall goal is to find a resolution to an account within the first 6 months of placement. However, it is becoming easier for individuals to simply block numbers and not open mail. When an account goes without consumer resolution for over 180 days, and the individual is employed and not identified as indigent, we do request permission to proceed through legal recourse. While this option is solely at the discretion of our clients, we encourage it as a means to recover delinquent accounts.
Navigating the labyrinth of bankruptcy takes years of industry knowledge and an efficient workflow to make the time spent worthwhile. Our office handles bankruptcy accounts from their initial notification and proof of claim filing, all the way through to their discharge/dismissal.
Our agency understands the need for full transparency when it comes to collection activity and time frames. Our internal auditing ensures end of life cycle action on accounts we return to you for cost reporting. Our in-depth CMS reporting will ensure quick work in the event of an audit.
