by Pete Crutchley | Feb 6, 2020 | Medical Billing News
Top up (or GAP) invoices = asking the patient to agree to pay the difference between a consultant’s fee and the fee an insurance company is prepared to pay. The discussion concerning them seems to take place more in whispers than anything else. And sometimes...
by Pete Crutchley | Feb 5, 2020 | Medical Billing News
It is marvelous how some private practices manage to make ANY money. Actually, in one recent case, I’m not entirely sure the consultant concerned was making any money at all. More frighteningly, the consultant did know if he was or not. Unknown. He didn’t...
by Pete Crutchley | Feb 4, 2020 | Medical Billing News
All MHM clients want to see more patients. They want to grow their practice by taking advantage of the reported 7.5% per annum growth in self-funders. Quite right too. Self-funding patients are an opportunity to grow a private practice. They want their practice to be...
by Pete Crutchley | Feb 4, 2020 | Medical Billing News
One of the very worst things any consultant in private practice can do is get involved when he shouldn’t. When is that? It’s when he or she is doing ANYTHING other than seeing or operating on a patient. ROI Otherwise known as “Return on...
by Pete Crutchley | Jan 28, 2020 | Medical Billing News
The patient arrives for the consultation. He hasn’t obtained a pre-authorisation. Should you see the patient? Yes, of course, you should. Patient care must come first. But the patient does not have a pre-authorisation! It does happen. It shouldn’t but it does. How...
by Pete Crutchley | Jan 28, 2020 | Medical Billing News
Most consultants are concerned, quite rightly, with how and why a patient has chosen to see them. Before asking the question of why and how does a patient chooses you as a consultant an early question is asked. Why have the patients taken out private medical insurance...
