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Dental And Medical Collection Legal Guidelines by: Steve Austin Every medical and dental practice has to deal with patients who do not pay. If it doesn't deal with such patients, the costs will simply be passed on to other patients - the practice may simply suffer or fold. Yet the very real dental and medical collection laws issues mean you should think carefully before reminding your patients to pay up. In the end, you may very well be better off outsourcing your medical or dental accounts receivables to one of the new medical and dental collection agency/accounts payable processing centers. According to the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), your medical or dental billing notices fall under essentially the same regulations as a mega-bank's car loan collections. Real-World Medical and Dental Debt Collection Law Quandaries Anne, a secretary at Westville Orthopedic Associates, calls up a patient who just turned '18
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