Tax Season Brings Opportunity for Accounts Receivable

Every year, we begin pushing our clients to get their placements in ahead of the new year in an effort to have those accounts optimally primed for tax season.  With 44% of taxpayers expecting their returns to be the wealthiest check they’ll bring home this year, opportunity abounds for all accounts receivable professionals.

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Can't You Hear Me Knocking?

If you like the Rolling Stones song by the same name, you’ll really appreciate this scary fact, Americans are only answering their cell phones 47% of the time according to Hiya, an authority on the subject.  Less than half of all attempts to reach consumers on their cell phones and yet statistics show that Americans check their cell phone every 12 minutes or 80 times each day!

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ATTENTION: H.R. 5330 is Poised to Disrupt Accounts Receivable for Healthcare Organizations

This month we are highlighting the Consumer Protection for Medical Debt Collections Act which is being sponsored by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich and should be coming up for a vote early this year.  H.R. 5330 is important to our medical clients for two very specific reasons.  First, it would limit any medical account from going into collections for two full years.  If that isn’t enough to worry you, H.R. 5330 would also eliminate your ability (and our ability) from reporting any medical account to the credit bureaus for one full year. 

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Simon's Helps The Samaritan Center Get New Stoves!

This January, The Samaritan Center in downtown Syracuse received their new stoves and professional installation courtesy of a grant that Simon's Agency was able to help the center to obtain!  Simon’s Agency volunteers gathered late last year for their third annual Volunteer Day where they prepared, cooked and served meals to those in need and also announced that the grant had been awarded to the Samaritan Center.

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