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Upfront payments 6.1 Cost estimates: pricing schedule Following the categorisation of treatment, the OVM/patient-facing administrative team should inform the patient of the estimated costs of treatment. A list of indicative prices has been developed for guidance purposes to support upfront charging. These are not mandatory and not designed to replace existing tariff-based pricing practice where it is felt that the provider has a system in place and agreed with their commissioner that creates more accurate estimates than these indicative prices. This national indicative price list will stay under review and NHS Improvement will ensure that any national pricing changes/adjustments are reflected as required. The OVM/patient-facing administrative team should explain that the charge at this point is an estimate, based on the national tariff, and that the final invoice may be adjusted, with either a refund provided if the estimate is higher than the final cost, or further payment taken if the estimate... 更多資訊 Executive summary The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015, as amended, (the charging regulations), place a legal obligation on any organisation providing relevant services to an overseas visitor to make and recover charges from the person liable where no exemption from charge category applies. To undertake this duty organisations are required to establish whether a person is an overseas visitor to whom charges apply, or whether they are exempt from charges. Where charges apply, they must be recovered in full in advance of providing treatment, unless doing so would delay the provision of treatment that is clinically assessed as either immediately necessary or urgent. Since recovery of costs after the provision of treatment is often difficult, this action is critical to ensure that finite NHS resources are protected at a time of financial challenge for the NHS. This document has been developed with input from NHS Improvement, to set out a framework on the practical... 更多資訊
