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How Medical Transcription Services Can Improve Their Cash Flow by
Choosing a Factor: Part One of Three by Philip Cohen In a world where
it is becoming increasingly more difficult for a medical transcription
service to receive timely payments from their customers, factoring
for the medical transcription industry can come to the rescue. Selling
their invoices at a discounted rate,
also known as factoring, gives medical transcription businesses the
money they need to help maintain and grow their operations. Instead
of waiting 30, 60, 90 days or longer for payment from their customers,
factoring provides the cash needed to meet payroll, pay taxes, purchase
software and/or increase staff. And all of this can be accomplished
without increasing debt on a firm’s balance sheet, which could limit
future financing alternatives. Funding is best be utilized to bridge
the gap between when an invoice is issued and when payment is received.
Another reason why medical transcription services should look
into selling their receivables is that factoring companies do not
base their funding capabilities on a business owner’s personal
credit or even the company’s credit history. Rather, factors are
most concerned with the creditworthiness of the medical transcription
service’s clients, who are also called account debtors; to pay
them after the invoice has been sold. A traditional bank, on the
other hand, would be less concerned with the service’s customers.
From a banker’s perspective, it’s the business owner’s personal
credit and the company’s operating and financial history that
will determine whether or not they would approve any loan amount.
With that said, there are literally thousands of factoring companies
to choose from, all of which offer distinct advantages and disadvantages.
The most important question to keep asking while searching for an
accounts receivable factor is: “Will this factor best be able
to meet my company’s needs?” Keeping that key question in mind,
factors can generally be divided into three different operating
categories. First, there are large factors that operate nationally
and are able to fund clients across numerous different industries.
These factors usually work out of multiple offices, and they are
set up to cater to the needs of very large businesses. Because of
their size and national presence, these factors are capable of funding
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