by Pete Crutchley | Apr 16, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Take, for example, a patient who requires an injection which may be performed by a private orthopaedic surgeon at an outpatient consultation. Thus you raise an invoice for, as an example, £185 [£90 for the consultation and £95 for the injection]. Please be...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 16, 2019 | Medical Billing News
MHM recently completed a project for a hospital. The project was to investigate why the hospital was not getting paid. One insurance company was proving to be particularly troublesome. An analysis of a month’s invoices soon identified why. This particular insurance...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 15, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Consider when the patient has contacted his/her insurance company and been issued with a pre-authorisation number. This does not mean, the insurance company will accept your charge. This happened to an MHM client – a gynaecologist – a few days ago. We...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 15, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Recently my stepdaughter received confirmation from her GP additional tests were required for an issue that had arisen. Both she and her Mum were somewhat disturbed that the waiting time for the test would be over 2 months. As my stepdaughter had private medical cover...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 14, 2019 | Medical Billing News
My website designer related a really interesting tale to me this week. He designs websites for all sorts of businesses including consultant surgeons but was confused. He’d checked the traffic to all his client’s websites and the numbers were good. Curiously though,...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 14, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Monday morning comes round all too quickly and its time to invoice last week’s clinics. Pay attention This is a good example of not paying sufficient attention to the clinic list. It almost cost the consultant £50. The patient was marked down as a follow-up. An...
