by Pete Crutchley | Sep 8, 2015 | Medical Billing News
If you get the basics right many problems with getting paid aren’t allowed to happen. The basics mean the absolute minimum and mandatory requirements in order to present an account for your services. The basics are as follows: Patient’s full name Patient’s full...
by Pete Crutchley | Mar 31, 2015 | 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...
by Pete Crutchley | Mar 17, 2015 | Medical Billing News
My website designer related a really interesting tale to me this week. He designs websites for all sorts of businesses including consultant surgeons but was confused. He’d checked the traffic to all his client’s websites and the numbers were good. Curiously though,...
by Pete Crutchley | Mar 10, 2015 | Medical Billing News
Some insurance companies decline to accept invoices that are sent more than six months after the consultation or surgical episode. Fair enough, they should have been invoiced. BUT… A statement was received today from a certain insurance company containing an entry...
by Pete Crutchley | Nov 4, 2014 | Medical Billing News
Take this ONE client as an example. Out of 15 consultations 4 (four) came back with excess / shortfall deductions totalling £575 in one week. So for a total of £2,500 worth of revenue from outpatient consultations £575 or 23% came back short. Looking back to the same...