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1 | From the Collections Admin page, click the External Collections tab. 
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2 | Open the Practice drop down list and select the practice to update. Update the relevant information via the applicable steps below... | |
3 | To update an external collection agency assignment, select the agency to update.
| Only Agencies assigned to the selected Practice are available for selection in the Denial Group drop down list. - Associations of Practices to Denial Groups are created on the Denial Groups sub-tab.
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4 | Click Update. The Update External Collection Assignment window opens. 
| The Agency field is read-only and cannot be updated. To change the agency, add a new one to the table and enter pertinent information. |
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5 | Enter the threshold value for selecting service fee lines of guarantor accounts by outstanding balance in the Balance - Greater Than field. | |
6 | Enter the threshold value for selecting service fee lines of guarantor accounts by age in the Age - Greater Than field. | |
7 | To automatically post service fee lines pending transfer to external collections, select the Automatically Approve checkbox. | |
8 | To automatically create the electronic file for the external collection agency, select the Automatically Create File checkbox. | |
9 | Click Save. | |
10 | In the Payment Exclusions section, enter the number of days used to rule out a service fee line to which a payment has been applied on guarantor accounts flagged as transfer to external collections in the Payment made with ___ days field. | The number of days is required if payments will be a factor when selecting service fee lines for transfer to external collections. |
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11 | Enter the dollar amount used as a measure for the payment applied to the service fee line in the Payment made dollar minimum field. | The payment must equal or exceed this amount for the service fee line to be excluded from external collections. |
You can specify both the minimum dollar amount and minimum percentage for the payment. However, if you specify both a dollar amount and a percentage, the larger value of the two will be used to determine whether the service fee line will be excluded from external collections. |
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12 | Enter the percentage value used as a measure for the payment applied to the service fee line in the Payment made percent minimum field. | The payment must equal or exceed this percentage amount for the service fee line to be excluded from external collections. |
You can specify both the minimum dollar amount and minimum percentage for the payment. However, if you specify both a dollar amount and a percentage, the larger value of the two will be used to determine whether the service fee line will be excluded from external collections. |
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13 | In the External Collection Rules section, select/deselect the Automatically roll accounts flagged as returned mail to external collections checkbox to activate/deactivate this rule for returned mail. | |
14 | Select/de-select the Automatically reassign external accounts to appropriate agency checkbox to activate/de-activate the automated external collection process. | If checked, the threshold settings for Balance Greater Than and Age Greater Than in the external collection agency table are ignored. |
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15 | Click Apply. | |
16 | Click Save. | |