title: Helping your patients want to pay you.
abstract: Back in the day when deductibles and copayments represented a relatively small share of your accounts receivable, you might have been able to get away with relegating patient-balance collections to your secondary list of practice management priorities. But in today's world of flat or declining medical revenue--coupled with burgeoning consumer-driven health plans--collecting those patient dollars has become a significant part of revenue cycle management.
authors.affiliation: tboden@aol.com
authors.forename: Timothy W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Boden
mesh_terms: D003669:Deductibles and Coinsurance; D006801:Humans; D020402:Medical Savings Accounts; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D011641:Public Relations; D014481:United States