Savit or Attorney?
Should I use SaVit or an attorney to collect my accounts?
- Attorneys can sue in a court of law
- Patients often respond to their letters
- They can negotiate when patients call their offices
- Their fees may be lower than some collection agency fees
- Most attorneys do not specialize in healthcare debt collection
- Attorneys are not usually staffed to work and solve complicated insurance problems
- They charge suit fees and court costs over and above their collection fees
- They usually do not make outgoing telephone collection calls
- They will usually only sue on accounts over $1,500
- They often do not list smaller balances with credit bureaus
- They often do not give clients a summary report of their results
- They sometimes require upfront retainers
- They usually do not remit payments to their clients in a timely manner
Using SaVit Collection Agency
- We use letters, incoming and outgoing phone calls to contact patients
- We specialize in healthcare accounts
- We can find patients who have moved or left their jobs
- We supply regular status and management reports to our clients
- We use attorneys when they are needed, and manage that relationship for you
- Our attorneys specialize in healthcare collections and can sue smaller balances
- We provide our attorneys with valuable information from credit bureau and asset verification searches to increase their success rate
- We are experts in dealing with insurance companies and complicated cases
- We list unpaid accounts with national credit bureaus, increasing the opportunity to collect
- We promptly remit all patient payments to our clients by the second business day of the month following payment
- We have no upfront charges
- We have an experienced Customer Care department to answer all your questions and concerns immediately.
- We record all telephone calls between our staff and patients
- While our collection fee may be somewhat higher than an attorney’s, we offer a higher net return to our clients
