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Re:California lawmakers introduce plan to end surprise ER bills by ams6110 on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:48PM (#19248209)
What about this tactic: find out what percentage they get if they sell the account to a collector. Offer a bit more than that.
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Re:California lawmakers introduce plan to end surprise ER bills by citilife on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:25PM (#19249088)
Funny story, our billing service was also collections. Meaning, the doctor / hospital earned X% of what ever we got, regardless of if you were in collections or not.

So, we had no incentive to really negotiate in that regard.

Arguably a significant percentage of healthcare companies have their billing setup in such a way. Or they handle it entirely in house.

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