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3 things physicians can do to avoid high virtual credit card fees

If your practice accepts virtual credit card payments from health plans, you may be losing a significant amount of your contractual payments to high interchange fees. Fortunately, there are three steps you can take to make sure you aren’t paying unnecessary charges.

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