Freedom of Information Request: 0840
Can I please be given details of medical bills given to overseas patients who were not entitled to free treatment on the NHS from April 2016 to the present date.
Specifically can I receive:
- The total sum of medical bills given to overseas patients who were not entitled to free treatment on the NHS during this period
£8,067,000 (this does not include credit notes).This is a combined total for all sites of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
- The outstanding total from medical bills given in this period owed by overseas patients who were not entitled to free treatment on the NHS
£4,544,000 (this does include debts written off). This is a combined total for all sites of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
- The highest medical bill given to an individual patient, brief details of the treatment they received and how much of that bill remains outstanding.
£420,000, nil owed, Clinical Haematology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
All information is provided as at the 7th March 2019. The figures given in question 1 are not net of credit notes and are simply the sum total of all invoices forwarded to patients who it was believed at the time of invoicing were not entitled to free NHS care. In some cases invoices may have been cancelled at a later date when UK ordinary residence or EU residency was proven. It is also possible that invoices could have been cancelled and then subsequently re-issued, meaning duplications could be included.
