News: UNC ramping up efforts to collect payment
Patient Access Weekly Advisor, News and Observer, March 12, 2008
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UNC Health Care is again increasing their efforts to collect money from patients, less than two years after the system said they would lighten the pressure of their billing practices, the News & Observer reports.
As of last Saturday, all hospital and physician clinics affiliated with state-supported UNC Health Care began asking patients to pay their part of the bill at the time of registration. That includes not only $15 and $20 co-payments, but also high-cost services such as MRI scans.
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