Getting to Know Melissa Plunkey of L J Ross Associates
- Just when she thought she was out, they pull her back in. Melissa Plunkey is on her third stint in the family business, but it looks like she might be here to stay this time because she’s now the owner. Running the business started by her aunt and uncle instills a lot of pride in Plunkey, who has also spent 10 years working as a nurse with critical care and hospice patients. Read on to learn more about Melissa, why she doesn’t want to be judged for her guilty pleasures, and why she likes to ask so many questions.
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Judge Awards Defendants $50k in Attorney’s Fees in FDCPA Case
- In a case that was defended by Avanti Bakane and the team at Gordon Rees, a District Court judge in Georgia has ordered the plaintiff’s in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case to pay nearly $50,000 in attorney’s fees and costs to the defendant, overruling all of the plaintiff’s objections to reduce the award.
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Payment Processor to Pay $10M to Settle Claims with FTC, Barred from Working with Collectors, Debt Relief Companies
- The Federal Trade Commission has taken legal action against a payment processing company and two of its former executives, accusing them of processing payments for fraudulent and deceptive companies, including a debt relief organization. Under the terms of the settlement, the company has agreed to a $10 million fine and to stop processing payments for high-risk clients.
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Why Healthcare Providers Need to Modernize Patient Payment Options
- A lot of healthcare providers are still feeling the financial pinch of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and that may move more of them to take a proactively innovative approach to bolstering the payment options they offer patients as a means of improving their accounts receivable processes, according to a published report.
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