How to maintain control over the work of accounts receivable service firms.
Healthcare organizations that enter agreements with accounts receivable consulting firms should insist on various contractual safeguards. These controls allow a hospital to reject any recommendation without incurring extra costs; approve the format of bills sent to potential payers and review copies of bills later produced; insist that consultants identify themselves to payers as hospital representatives, not employees; and protect their interests in other ways.
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Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover.
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