by Pete Crutchley | Jun 4, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Recently I helped a medical secretary understand the noble art of medical invoicing. Having your medical secretary handling medical invoicing isn’t something I’d recommend though for a number of reasons. First and foremost, over the years medical invoicing...
by Pete Crutchley | Jun 3, 2019 | Medical Billing News
This is a topic that comes up frequently when I meet Private Consultant Surgeons. Indeed, the point was touched upon last year in a blog regarding asking self-funding patients to pay in advance. Self-funding patients represent the major risk of non-payment for the...
by Pete Crutchley | Jun 3, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Take, for example, a patient who requires an injection which may be performed at a consultation. Thus you raise an invoice for, as an example, £185 [£90 for the consultation and £95 for the injection] BUT…. Upon receipt of the invoice by the patient’s insurance...
by Pete Crutchley | Jun 2, 2019 | Medical Billing News
A question, which was asked recently at a private practice seminar MHM were presenting at. Interestingly the question was asked by a consultant surgeon who had started his/her private practice two years earlier. He said excess was the responsibility of the patient’s...
by Pete Crutchley | Jun 2, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Flip the question on its head. WOULD YOU BUY SOMETHING WITHOUT KNOWING HOW MUCH IT COST? Would you pass over your debit card details without knowing how much is going to be charged to it? 99.9% of people would say NO. That’s today’s blog over then. Or is...
by Pete Crutchley | Jun 1, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Sometimes it can be confusing why an invoice is declined for payment. The patient arrived for her consultation. She brought her pre-authorisation number too. An invoice for her consultation and the investigatory procedure was raised. Invoice declined. We were...
