by Pete Crutchley | Feb 8, 2022 | Medical Billing News
Anybody ever watched the movie “Jerry Maguire” and the immortal quote – show me the money! Clearly a guy I recently bumped into at a medical conference hadn’t. He was the Practice Manager for a large hospital group. His complaint was the lack of cash from insurance...
by Pete Crutchley | Feb 3, 2022 | Medical Billing News
If you get the basics right many problems with getting paid don’t happen. The basics mean the absolute minimum and mandatory requirements in order to present an account for your services. The basics are: Patient’s full name. What is their full address? Do you...
by Pete Crutchley | Jan 6, 2022 | Medical Billing News
This is the one question I get asked more often than all the others. The first thing to realise about increasing a fee is that you CANNOT increase a fee for all your surgical episodes. Nor can you increase a fee every time you perform a surgical episode....
by Pete Crutchley | Nov 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
A Consultant Surgeon performs code AB1234 worth £525. At the same time, he performs a DC2468 worth £576. The patient is insured so an invoice has to be submitted for payment. Therefore you have to calculate the fee payable by the insurance company. Easy. The...
by Pete Crutchley | Nov 4, 2021 | Medical Billing News
After a recent presentation, a private consultant surgeon telephoned me. He wanted all his fees checked. He heard about the MHM fee checker from a colleague who had attended the presentation so he wanted to commission a full review of his fees. But he wasn’t so...
