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NEW ORLEANS -- Physicians need to get tough about collecting what's owed them, Michael Fleischman said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
"Patients may think you're the greatest thing since the public health clinic because they don't have to pay a copay if they don't want to," said Mr. Fleischman, who is principal and vice president of Gates, Moore, & Co., an Atlanta consulting firm. But there are several reasons why physicians need to be more aggressive about collecting copays.
For one thing, "your [insurance company] contract requires that you collect them,"...
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