by Pete Crutchley | Nov 3, 2015 | Medical Billing News
I was asked to speak with a colleague of a current MHM client recently. He was having problems with outstanding invoices both from insurance companies and from self-funding patients. He, in turn, asked me to speak to the person who “looked after the...
by Pete Crutchley | Nov 2, 2015 | Medical Billing News
An MHM client recently performed a certain surgical episode. The surgery was something he’d done many, many times before with invoices being both sent and paid by various insurance companies. Pretty standard stuff in other words. One particular...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 30, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Having analyzed where the private practice is both in terms of outstanding accounts, it is important to have a structured and rational action plan. Why do it this way though? On numerous occasions, MHM has been called in when previous attempts to resolve an accounts...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 29, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Excess and shortfalls are the biggest headaches any private medical practice will face. You will not stop them despite what you may think so you MUST have a process in place to identify them and action them. What are excess and shortfalls? EXCESS. Just like...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 28, 2015 | Medical Billing News
It ranks up there with not sending an invoice out in the first place. It is the number one complaint a private consultant gets from patients about his/her billing process. It’s also a critical element in identifying one of the major causes a consultant has...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 27, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Yesterday we established how to find precisely where your private practice is as regards debtors. Now we need to look at the invoicing process. But Do NOT react to a high level of outstanding invoices by immediately sending hundreds of copies out....