In nine pages the accounts receivable operations of a small medical center are assessed in terms of better streamlining and environmental security. There are no sources cited in the bibliography.
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Subject: Internal Control in the Payment Collection System As you requested, I have studied and assessed our current method of dealing with patient accounts
receivable. The following sections outline current practice; a diagram of the paper path of one clerks position; an assessment of the efficacy of the current system; and recommendations for
improvements to the system that we can make without fully automating the system at the present time. Current Practice
There are several points at which patient business (i.e., nonmedical) files are used in the process of recording charges and payments by credit patients. The
actual files used are listed in Table 1 below, but it should be remembered that patient files are used for a number of transactions. The interviewing physician uses the
patient business file for the initial determination of credit approval. The same patient business file is then used to contain charge slips, payment records and internal memoranda. The
effect is that the patient business file is first a master file, but it also constitutes a transaction file in that it is used for so many separate and necessary
transactions of approval, charge and payment. Table 1. Files Used Master Files Transaction Files Debtor file Daily Collections List Patient
files (nonmedical) Daily Sales List Daily lists summarizing collections and sales are not files per
se, yet constitute the equivalent of daily files used to track sales and receipts, which obviously will not reconcile on a daily basis. Credit patients may make payment on