Exam 10: Office and Insurance Collection Strategies

The term ____________________ is used when accounts are billed at spaced intervals during the month.

All accounts older than 120 days should go to a collection agency.

Standard policy should be to reduce fees of any patient who dies after receiving medical care.

__________________ are another way of offering the patient a way of paying off an account by spreading out the amount due over a period of time.

The amount due listed on the patient's financial accounting record is also referred to as the account ____________________.

When the physician's office receives notice that a check was not honored, the first thing to do is to

Patients' accounts turned over to a collection agency should have a/an ____________________ sent by certified mail.