by Pete Crutchley | Aug 4, 2021 | Medical Billing News
This is a topic that comes up frequently when I meet Private Consultant Surgeons. Indeed, the point was mentioned 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 | Aug 4, 2021 | Medical Billing News
Most consultants when they first start a private practice, consider how best they can set their fees. In reality, it is not the consultant who sets his or her own fees. It is the patient’s insurance company. Consideration of fee setting should be viewed from two...
by Pete Crutchley | Aug 3, 2021 | Medical Billing News
Take, for example, a patient who requires an injection which may be performed by a private orthopaedic surgeon at an outpatient consultation. Thus you raise an invoice for, as an example, £185 [£90 for the consultation and £95 for the injection]. Please be aware for...
by Pete Crutchley | Aug 3, 2021 | Medical Billing News
MHM recently completed a project for a group of private surgeons with the instruction being to find out why they weren’t getting paid. One insurance company was particularly troublesome but an analysis of a month’s invoices soon identified why. This particular...
by Pete Crutchley | Aug 1, 2021 | Medical Billing News
You can’t! Pay attention This is a good example of not paying sufficient attention to the clinic list. It almost cost the consultant £50. The patient was marked down as a follow-up so an invoice for £100 was required for the patient’s insurance company. Wrong!...