title: How to maintain control over the work of accounts receivable service firms.
abstract: 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.
authors: Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover.
authors: J H
authors: JH
authors: St George
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting; D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D003253:Consultants; D003284:Contract Services / Q000592:standards*; D005376:Financial Management / Q000592:standards*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection; D014481:United States