Jeff Means, a principal at Colburn Hill Group, an RCM operational solutions firm: Recognize the value in collecting a very large volume of low balance accounts, but adopt an intelligent, organized approach to that effort. It is critical to ensure you don’t sacrifice — even periodically — the collection opportunity on your high dollar accounts to work a very large volume of low balance accounts.
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