An Interview With Karen Cooper of Transworld: Collection Solutions for Today’s Collection Problems
I have known of Transworld Systems for almost as long as I’ve been in healthcare – a long time. But it wasn’t until I got to know Karen Cooper from Transworld Systems that it came home to me what a difference a company representative can make in the ultimate success of the service.
Karen has been with Transworld for 10 years (the company has been in business for 41 years), moving to a sales job with the company after getting her MBA and getting her kids started in elementary school. She looked for the right job for a year and a half and even though she had never been in sales before, she knew she could leverage her professional experience and education to great advantage in full-service collections.
Although not exclusively working with healthcare clients, Karen loves the medical market and enjoys the “lingo” that is so specific to medical practices and hospitals. She has seen many changes in healthcare over the past 10 years, particularly physicians’ interest in and acceptance of a business approach to collections. With patients having responsibility for more of the healthcare bill, physicians and managers are turning to specialists to do the staff-intensive chore of collections.
