by Pete Crutchley | Oct 15, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Oops. During a coffee break at a conference one day last week, I was chatting to a surgeon about surgical fees. His view was they were too low and a certain insurance company were, in his view, trying to reduce the number of consultants they recognised by...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 14, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Earlier this year, MHM was engaged to review the billing process of a private hospital. The project was to investigate why various private medical insurance companies were not paying. Initial findings One insurance company was proving to be particularly...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 13, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Banks are desperate to phase out cheques. This is due to the cost of processing a cheque from the bank’s point of view. Yet the decision was taken not to, as planned, phase out cheques completely by 2018. It just is not going to happen. Cheques it...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 12, 2015 | Medical Billing News
What are the benefits of consultant surgeons becoming active on social media? More importantly what are the apparent risks to the surgeon and how do the benefits stack up against the risks? The aim of a social media presence may be said to be an increase in the...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 9, 2015 | 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 | Oct 8, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Fees change. It is always intriguing as to why many consultants are unaware of this. Even those that are aware negate to check fees on a frequent basis. Of those consultants who are aware fees change, many complain that fees are always decreasing and some fees do...
