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maintain a log of the information on the pink slips but relied on
the billing services to accurately account for the billing.
Petitioner used three unrelated billing services to collect
his fees from patients. Petitioner used Professional Financial
Services from March 1989 until the end of that year; he used Hagy
& Hagy until June 1990; and he used Lynx Medical from June 1990
until December 1991. Petitioner resigned from the Highline
Community Hospital effective September 1, 1991, and used
Professional Financial Services to collect the residual
receivables remaining after December 1991. After petitioner
retired, he moved to Roseburg, Oregon.
The billing services billed petitioner's patients and their
insurance carriers, collected the payments, and deposited the
payments into petitioner's main bank account at First Interstate
Bank (the main account). For these services, the billing
services billed petitioner a percentage of the receivables
collected, usually 11 percent to 14 percent. The billing
services collected approximately 50 percent of the gross charges,
primarily because of disallowances by insurance carriers. The
billing services sent petitioner lengthy monthly statements of
his accounts.
Occasionally a billing service would receive an overpayment
resulting from payments from both the patient and the patient's
insurance carrier. Petitioner established a separate refund
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