collection agency

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a firm that collects unpaid bills for other firms and is usually compensated by receiving a percentage of the amount collected.

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An estimated 20 percent of Americans are currently being pursued by a collection agency for medical debt.
How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare (Ep. 456)|Stephen J. Dubner|April 1, 2021|Freakonomics
The hospital also disclosed that employees at its now-shuttered collection agency were given financial incentives based on the money they recouped from patients.
Nonprofit Hospital Almost Never Gave Discounts to Poor Patients During Collections, Documents Show|by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism|December 4, 2020|ProPublica
Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
The collection includes kimono capes and hand woven jump overalls.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Wisner continues to feel angry toward the agency because she believes she was misled.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370|Lennox Samuels|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Larson, as usual, instills gravitas and agency in an otherwise underwritten character.
Brie Larson’s Hollywood Transformation|Marlow Stern|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The collection in the Academy I thought much better, but still far enough behind similar galleries in Rome.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
At length the great Pit Town collection was housed as it deserved to be.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Having thus enrolled himself as one of the Agency Indians, he had a claim on this the Agency doctor.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Yet he succeeded in getting many to take the agency and these received orders and sent for the books.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
I have made a small collection of early stories, and some of them are interesting enough to be quoted.
Children's Ways|James Sully