by Pete Crutchley | Apr 20, 2019 | Medical Billing News
I’m a really, really impatient person. I like everything done yesterday. Which is why I go incredibly slowly to start with. Do it once and do it right When I begin to raise invoices for a consultant surgeon, for example, I’ll check I have the right...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 19, 2019 | Medical Billing News
At a medical conference recently a friend of mine was discussing the future of the private practice industry and what lay ahead. My colleague shared the view that the “younger” newly appointed consultant is more adaptable to the direction of change in the...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 18, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Following a recent blog regarding websites for the private surgeon, I was asked my view of social media eg Twitter or Facebook. Whilst I’m solid in my view a private surgeon should have a website, social media may not be the right place for a private surgeon to...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 18, 2019 | Medical Billing News
One of the major areas MHM is approached about is excess and shortfalls. As at March 2019, empirical evidence indicated 26% of all claims to private medical insurance companies are subject to an excess/shortfall. This is not to imply the insurance companies are only...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 17, 2019 | Medical Billing News
The first thing to realise about increasing a fee is that you CANNOT increase a fee for all your surgical episodes nor can you increase a fee every time you perform a surgical episode. Having said that it is possible on occasion to request an uplift in fee...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 17, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Who really sets your fees? Most consultants when they first start a private practice, consider how best they can set their fees. In reality, it is not the consultant who sets his or her own fees. It is the patient’s insurance company. Consideration of fee setting...
