by Pete Crutchley | May 1, 2017 | Medical Billing News
A private medical consultant raises an invoice for one reason and only one reason. Getting paid the most he or she can at the earliest possible date is the aim. Such a simple aim but it is one that many sometimes forget. Achieve the aim How do you achieve that...
by Pete Crutchley | Apr 20, 2017 | Medical Billing News
Every so often I take a phone call from a self funding patient. The patient requires a receipt for their payment. The patient can then re-claim the amount paid from their health cash plan provider. For example: a patient visits a private surgeon and pays for...
by Pete Crutchley | Oct 27, 2016 | Medical Billing News
A group of surgeons I know are having problems getting paid by insurance companies. Not just an individual insurance company but all insurance companies. More specifically or so the surgeon’s practice manager claimed, there were many invoices unpaid by insurance...
by Pete Crutchley | Jul 20, 2016 | 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 | Feb 10, 2016 | Medical Billing News
Per normal I was checking what was happening with shortfalls and excess over the weekend. Using a single private consultant surgeon as an example: Week ending Friday January 22nd: out of 15 consultations 4 came back with excess / shortfall deductions totalling...
