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One question that members of Tallahassee (FL) Memorial's patient access department have struggled with is whether it makes sense to keep going after a person who simply has no resources, says Joan S. Braveman, director of patient access and financial services. The department installed software in August 2010 that gives customer service representatives the ability to look at how likely a patient is to pay.

Which patients will pay, which are time-wasters?