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How to Collect a Doctor Bill

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About This Book

The book is a practical guide for physicians on managing the business side of practice, offering principles and step-by-step methods to secure payment for services. It discusses professional attitude toward debtors, timing for collection, bookkeeping systems, sample letters and forms, and the application of statutes of limitations and exemption laws. The author explains cash and credit approaches, strategies for obtaining partial payments to revive old accounts, and when litigation is worth pursuing. It concludes with detailed extracts of exemption statutes from each state to help physicians assess collectability and legal remedies.

The card ledger is the up-to-date book-keeping system and is being used for all kinds of accounts.

It is the simplest and best method a doctor can use. With it there are no dead accounts to handle (when an account is paid the card is transferred to the closed accounts); no indexing to do, the cards being filed in alphabetical order; there is a great economy of time, the statement of an account is always ready when a client asks for it; because of this, collections are made prompter and easier.

The Physician's Account System consists of a handsome quarter-sawed, dust-proof oak box (like the illustration shown) 5×6×9 inches, with a hinged lid, 500 buff cards, 3×5 inches, ruled on both sides, and two sets (A to Z) of alphabet guide cards, one set for the open accounts, the other for the closed accounts, and a movable metal partition to separate the open from the closed accounts.

Additional cards for this outfit may be secured at low cost, and as dead accounts may after a time be filed away, it constitutes a perpetual and very inexpensive ledger or account system.

Hundreds of physicians are using this system, and have nothing but praise for it; not one has raised an objection to it.

Don't spend a lot of money for an elaborate accounting system. No matter what you pay you cannot find as simple, convenient and satisfactory system as this.

Price, Complete In Oak Cabinet, with Pocket Call Book $5.00


Physicians Drug News,                       Newark, N. J.


In connection with our account system we supply a

Physicians Practical Call Book

for recording daily calls

 

"The object of this book is to furnish physicians with a simple and convenient method of recording calls, in as small compass as possible."

It is perpetual; may be begun at any time. It is elastic; if one double page is not sufficient, two may be employed.

It is free from the mass of printed matter which cumbers up the average call book and nearly all of which is unnecessary.

Size 7×4 inches. Handsomely bound, gilt edges, with flap.

Price $1.00

With name on, stamped in gold $1.25


Physicians Drug News,                       Newark, N. J.


TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

 

Punctuation has been corrected without note.

Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.

Page 1 in the Table of Contents has been corrected to Page 7.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows:
Page 16: I changed to 1
Page 21: acounts changed to accounts
Page 50: individal changed to individual
Page 51: libary changed to library
Page 55: Ilinois changed to Illinois
Page 57: usefruct changed to usufruct
Page 67: minor changed to miner
debtors changed to debtor's
calender changed to calendar
Page 68: virture changed to virtue
Page 70: owners changed to owner's
Page 79: pusuit changed to pursuit
Page 95: Dicounting changed to Discounting
Page 99: Newark, N. changed to Newark, N. J.

On page 40, note that 16th is missing in the original text.