title: Credit bureaus: the long arm of collections.
abstract: Credit bureau services often are ignored by healthcare providers as a resource for reducing bad debt. Reporting guarantors' credit information--especially bad debt--to credit bureaus can prevent debtors from obtaining new credit before an overdue hospital bill is paid, thereby reducing the number of past due accounts and increasing the hospital's cash flow.
authors: K G
authors: KG
authors: Black
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States