JUDGE GRANTS MSJ FOR DEFENSE IN FDCPA CASE OVER ‘FEES,’ ‘INTEREST’ IN LETTER
- A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it included line items for interest and fees which the plaintiff took as a threat that they could be added to the unpaid balance in the future.
HEALTHCARE COLLECTION AGENCY ANNOUNCES DATA BREACH
- A company that provides billing and collection services to healthcare providers has announced a data breach that compromised the personal records of more than 274,000 individuals representing several of the agency’s clients after a malware incident allowed a hacker to access the company’s systems.
NUMBER OF FDCPA COMPLAINTS SPIKED IN JUNE: WEBRECON
- This month’s stats from WebRecon were looking at each other in the mirror, it appears. While the number of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act suits were up significantly for the month of June compared with the same month last year, but still down significantly through the first half of the year, the number of Fair Credit Reporting Act and Telephone Consumer Protection Act suits were down for June, but up for the first half of the year.
PANDEMIC SENDS HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO CUT COSTS, OPTIMIZE REVENUE CYCLE
- Nearly four-fifths of financial officers at healthcare providers are looking at ways to improve their revenue cycle operations, which includes bad debt collections, and 85% are planning “aggressive” cost-cutting measures as they look to shore up their finances which have been impaired because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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