by Pete Crutchley | May 29, 2019 | 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...
by Pete Crutchley | May 28, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Re-reading Matthew Syed’s latest work reminded me of something I’m conscious of when I look at the business performance of the private medical practice. Meaningful patterns. One definition could be the ability to look at a situation and almost have a sixth...
by Pete Crutchley | May 28, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Many times I come across a consultant who is having problems getting paid by self-funding patients. This is often followed by a reference to numerous reminders and sometimes even final demands being sent in vain to the patient. Despite all this, no payment has...
by Pete Crutchley | May 27, 2019 | Medical Billing News
Get the details right! I’m very much a “do it once and do it right” type of person. As I write this I’m on hold to a particular insurance company and have been for thirteen minutes and 23 seconds. The reason I need to speak to the insurance...
by Pete Crutchley | May 27, 2019 | Medical Billing News
There a few things I hear that automatically set alarm bells ringing when I look at the invoicing and billing process of a business. “I’ll take a look at it next week” “I’ll get round to it in a bit” “I’ve been meaning...
by Pete Crutchley | May 26, 2019 | Medical Billing News
He wrote the 9th Symphony. One of the most acclaimed pieces of music in the world was written by a deaf man! How? Actually, Beethoven wasn’t deaf when he wrote the 9th but he was profoundly hard of hearing. Nonetheless, how on earth did he manage to write such a...
