Instituting a policy to charge patients for missed appointments may reduce the number of no shows. Here are other methods of doing so: Make reminder calls. The calls should be 1 to 3 days prior to ...

Medicare allows physicians to charge patients for missed appointments, provided they do not discriminate against Medicare beneficiaries but also charge non-Medicare patients for missed appointments.

Nova Scotia Health is hoping to reduce the number of people who miss appointments simply because they forgot they had one. Clinics will now send text messages to phones and reminders to those who use ...

More than 70,000 outpatient and theatre appointments were missed at a North East hospital group in the last nine months. The University Hospitals Tees group, a partnership between North Tees and ...