title: Managing your collections with excellence.
abstract: Collections are an important key to medical practice success. This article is a guide to the collections process. Some of these steps may seem obvious, but often medical practice administrators get busy managing people and forget to manage their collections.
authors.affiliation: Family Practice Center, Newport, TN 37812, USA. samowens@charter.net
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Owens
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D032982:Contracts; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States