Certain business models seem to have unshakable stigmas associated with them. Sometimes it’s deserved, such as from decades of unethical or sneaky behavior by players in the industry, and in other ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas ...

Pay-for-delete promises to erase collection debt from your credit report, but the results of this strategy can vary.

Key Takeaways Commercial debt collection agencies typically charge contingency fees ranging from 15% to 50% of ...

The debt collection industry was estimated to be in excess of $13.4B in 2021 with over 7,000 collection agencies. With such fragmentation in the industry, practices by collectors vary widely and the ...

There is a difference between billing companies and collection agencies, and anesthesia practices should know the difference in order to set appropriate expectations, according to an Aug. 14 blog post ...

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