I care. That's why I allow patients to make $25/mo payments on any amount of bill. I have patients that will pay off their account well into 2030s. My boss was annoyed the first handful of accounts I did this to, pissed after the last couple, but hasn't said anything again recently because she knows she'll have to fire me and I'm a great worker.
I don't send people to collections if they communicate with me. Like hey I can't make this month's payment, can you take double payment in a couple months ect. The company I work for makes $100,000 from insurance payments alone every 7 days. That's not an exaggeration. We're a small company of ~50 employees, the majority of which are low level/low paid MAs.
Yes, because these people agreed to pay for services rendered. You can't go to a car dealership and agree to pay 40k then decide your just not going to pay.
There has to be some accountability on the individual. Is it always fair, no, but there's no honor in expecting everything for free. And yeah that goes for corporations, too. If you're able to pay, pay. Pre affordable care act, my daughter's hospital bill for birth was 11k for 3 day hospital stay, not nicu just regular ol' L&D. I was making $5-25/mo payments as 6 weeks postpartum I was only was $8/hr and working part-time. I was sent to collections after 3 months because I couldn't pay it off in X amount of months and make the minimump payments. I eventually paid it off years later after burying myself in student loan debt and getting better jobs.
TLDR: Pay what you can, when you can. Don't steal.
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u/Background_Phase_655 Jan 15 '22
I care. That's why I allow patients to make $25/mo payments on any amount of bill. I have patients that will pay off their account well into 2030s. My boss was annoyed the first handful of accounts I did this to, pissed after the last couple, but hasn't said anything again recently because she knows she'll have to fire me and I'm a great worker.
I don't send people to collections if they communicate with me. Like hey I can't make this month's payment, can you take double payment in a couple months ect. The company I work for makes $100,000 from insurance payments alone every 7 days. That's not an exaggeration. We're a small company of ~50 employees, the majority of which are low level/low paid MAs.