Medical Debt Collection

What are some of the challenges in medical debt collection?

Doctors and medical professionals often face problems with patients not paying their bills. Particularly in Australia under te medicare system where it can be quite complicated to administer the payment of a medical bill and some patients can simply assume that the bill will be paid for them, this can add challenges to all of the normal challenges faced by buisnesses trying to collect debts. Aside from the complications of the medicare system and GST there are all of the normal motivations which a debtor may have for not paying in relation to a bill. They may say that the service that they were provided was substandard, they may simply complain that they are not able to pay the bill or that they are experiencing a ‘cash flow’ problem which seems to turn from being temporary to running into weeks, months and years.

In addition to this, medical patients may raise excuses for not paying related to the fact that they are sick or may attempt to play on your sympathy for them as an ill person. It is estimated that doctors and other types of medical professionals such as physios, psychologists, counsellors and health care clinics have as much as 20% of their revenue unpaid in each financial year. Sometimes doctors will also face the issue of a patient using an excuse for not paying that they believe that their treatment was negligent or badly performed and use the threat of professional indemnity litigation as a way of threatening you so that you will not pursue their debt.

For these reason, we have experienced that we can be of great assistance to the medical industry in terms of collecting debts and we have a proven record and a high rate of sucess with debts of these types, particularly for large debts involving operations, serious medical proceedures and other types of debts related to the medical industry for supply of equipment or services which can add up to very large amounts of money. If you have a medical debt collection matter, we would love to hear from you, just post your information in the box to right and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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