Practices and groups
We usually set your changeover date 3 to 4 weeks after you agree to move. That gives us time to set up our systems for you, and to adapt our software if your practice needs it.
40+ years billing for consultants in Ireland
Medical billing, done for you.
Your own account manager follows up every invoice, and gets ahead of the ones that won’t pay first time. Your HAS account shows you where each one stands.
We’ll come to you and work out what HAS would cost you, from your own figures. No contract, and we’re only paid when you are.
The problem
The invoices that don’t pay first time are the ones that cost you.
Any billing firm can send an invoice. What matters is who follows up the ones that come back queried, rejected or underpaid, or sit for weeks waiting on a claim number.
Invoices left sitting
Finding out last
Chasing your own billing firm
Paying for money that didn’t come in
How HAS works
You’ve done the work. You shouldn’t have to constantly chase the money.
That’s our job. Your billing, done for you: we send your invoices and follow every one through until it’s settled. You get three things:
The people behind HAS
One person to ask, who already knows your accounts.
Your own account manager looks after you from your first invoice and gets to know your accounts inside out. Behind them is a team that deals with the hospitals and insurers every day. When you ring the office, it’s answered within a few rings. For groups, your account manager can go through the figures with your spokesperson every month.
What it gets you: no explaining your practice from scratch, and someone who already knows the answer when you ring.
Valerie Tyndall
Account manager · 30+ years
Eimear Corbett
General Manager · 26+ years
Wherever you work
Let us come to you.
You shouldn’t have to find a room and dial in to talk about your billing. Tell us where you work, and we’ll come and see you, with your figures.
1
We come to see you
We’ll show you how HAS would work with your own numbers.
2
We set you up
We register you with the insurers, or move you over from your current firm.
3
You get on with your practice
Your account manager takes it from there, and you’ll hear from us when there’s something to tell you.
A few questions about your practice first, then we ring you to agree a time and place.
The follow-up
Get every queried and rejected invoice followed through.
We take it up with the hospital accounts departments and insurers on your behalf: the missing claim number, the claim form that needs signing, the length-of-stay letter, the insurer that paid less than it should. Our team also goes into hospital finance departments to work through the listings in person.
What it gets you
We won’t pretend every invoice gets paid. But each one is followed up, and if one can’t be recovered, you’ll hear it from us before your accountant.
The call before the problem
If a payment is held up by something outside your billing, like a claim form the admitting consultant hasn’t signed, your account manager rings you before the money is due.
Your patients, looked after
When a patient queries a bill, they speak to a person, the call is logged, and the account goes on hold until it’s sorted. It’s your name they’ll remember, not ours.
“That’s the depth we go to.”
Cathy Lavelle
Managing Director
Clodagh Reilly asked Ashgrove Clinic’s accounts department for the claim number on Ms N. Dunne’s knee arthroscopy
Underpayment raised with Laya Healthcare: €240 short on Mr P. Kinsella’s ankle fixation
Length-of-stay letter sent to Vhi for Mr T. Foley’s hip replacement
€2,410 from Irish Life Health paid and reconciled to Mr T. Foley
Clodagh Reilly rang you: a claim form at Thornfield Clinic needs the admitting consultant’s signature. She’s already on to the hospital.
Your HAS account
See where every invoice stands, without having to ask.
Log in on your phone or laptop to see which invoices are paid, queried or waiting on the hospital, updated as it happens. Your secretary and your accountant can have their own logins, each seeing only what they need.
You know what you’re owed at any point in the month. Or skip the logging in: some of our biggest practices rarely log in at all. They’d rather hear from us when there’s something to tell them.
Commission
We’re paid when you’re paid.
So every invoice matters as much to us as it does to you.
One commission, and all of it is included.
Registering you with Vhi, Laya, Irish Life Health and Level Health
Setting up billing with each hospital you work in
Moving you over from your current firm
Billing the insurers, the hospitals, the NTPF and self-pay patients
Inter-hospital billing
Following up every queried, rejected and underpaid invoice
The claim numbers, claim forms and length-of-stay letters
Visits to hospital finance departments to work through the listings
Your HAS account, with logins for your secretary and accountant
A person to answer your patients’ billing questions, and online payment for them
Since 1984
Why consultants stay with HAS for decades.
When a colleague asks who you’re with, this is what our clients say.
Where you’re starting from
Moving from another firm, or just starting out?
Joining HAS
Done for you, with every invoice still in view.
Your account manager follows up the invoices that come back and tells you when there’s something you need to know. Check your HAS account any time you like. No more ringing for updates, and a straight answer to whether you’ve been paid for all of it.
