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More and more modern businesses are proving the importance of invoice discounting. Whether these businesses are small start-ups or rapidly expanding, capital is the heart of every business and cash flow its lifeline.

As a company providing products or services to other businesses on a credit basis, you may already be experiencing cash flow problems. Even if you have 30 day terms, you might find your clients are working to varying payment terms of 60 days or even 90 days, it’s easy for your payments to become tied up in the sales ledger. This can make affording your own expenditures difficult. Borrowing from the bank to cover your finances may seem like the best option, but it’s often the most heavily administrated and time consuming, let alone the least cost-effective.

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Invoice factoring is the basic practice of selling invoices to financial factoring companies for the purpose of receiving money right away. Smaller companies often fall into the financial trap of not having available resources and therefore sell their invoices to financial agencies in order to gain working capital. This practice does not require the business to swallow more debt and in fact operates in an opposite manner. Small businesses that don’t utilize the financial tool of accounts receivable factoring acquire more debt by waiting for the accounts receivables to be paid.

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Medical factoring companies do not offer an existing medical practice a loan. In fact, the opposite is true. The medical office is selling third party account receivable invoices to a medical factoring company. This allows the medical factoring company to provide immediate cash payment for the total of the invoices to the medical practice provider. Third party billings are insurance companies such as Blue Cross and other like insurance providers. The medical field is one area that is extremely slow in paying invoices and most medical insurance companies can take up to 120 days to pay an invoice. This causes any medical practice to suffer from serious cash flow issues. Medical factoring changes the face of this situation by taking on the burden of waiting for payment on the outstanding invoices.

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