When you start a medical billing service you need to be prepared not to receive a payment for at least thirty to forty-five days. It would be nice if all of your clients paid you within ten days but this is just not realistic. The majority of your clients may not be able to pay you until they are paid themselves. Usually this is what happens with smaller clients. However, with larger clients if only a few of their patients pay, you will still get paid because they will have an accounts receivable account setup just for situations like these.

Allow your clients at least twenty to thirty days to make payment to your invoice. As mentioned earlier some clients can not pay you until they are paid themselves. Allowing them twenty to thirty days gives them a little while to receive payments from their clients so they can pay you. Your clients are your entire basis of your business, and without them, you will not have a business. So be a little flexible in receiving your payments. You have obligations too, so make sure you have cash flow available to take care of those obligations while you are waiting to be paid.

Depending on the amount of clients you have, set aside one day each week or each month and handle all of your invoices for that period. Trying to send out invoices after each job is completed can become hectic. It may sound like a good idea to complete your billing this way but you can lose control over your billing. You may forget whether you invoiced the client or not and either do it a second time or not do it at all. Avoid either one from happening by simply setting aside one day to do it all. At no time do you want to seem unprofessional while running your business.


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