A common billing system that bills each patient only once a month but spreads the work of billing over the month is ____.
A. using superbills
B. cycle billing
C. employing collection agencies
D. independent billing services
E. open-book accounting
B. cycle billing
Cycle billing is a process in which accounts are split into groups and statement dates are staggered to spread the billing process out over the month.
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