Getting uninsured patients to pay up

Self-paying patients are on the increase – and more and more consultants are needing help to gather their fees as a result. Gary Nials analyses the problems and shows what can be done.

Many practices still seem to think of private practice as the insurance market – but, in reality, it is not that simple.

An analysis on the invoices we raised in 2015 for people who owed doctors money shows that the private medical insurance (PMI) market only accounted for 55% of the total.