Private Operations and Fees

[Points a Good Score]

There is an ongoing debate in my own club regarding injuries, operations and fees.

Currently the club pays all fees (scan, consultancy, operation etc) and then claim backs off the GAA normally at a deficit to what has been paid out.

Generally that may have been a deficit of a few hundred pounds however with increased fees and the poor exchange rate at the minute it can run into thousands.

How do other clubs work this situation, do they cover all costs, expects players to pay and then re numerate them with the amout they are able to recover or let the player row his own boat?

[Knock Yer Mucker In]

If they got hurt playing for the club, the club looks after them. Club plays the op up front and then claims back after the op. From the insurance. We would do some fund raising like poker classics etc to gather a pool specifically for that purpose. Player pays no cost at all, as they got hurt playing for us. Some players have had private medical insurance which they have used instead of the club, so it is worth encouraging also.

[Keyboard Warrior]

Does same retrospective claim procedure apply for run of the mill physio costs also?

[johnneycool]

There is an ongoing debate in my own club regarding injuries, operations and fees.

Currently the club pays all fees (scan, consultancy, operation etc) and then claim backs off the GAA normally at a deficit to what has been paid out.

Generally that may have been a deficit of a few hundred pounds however with increased fees and the poor exchange rate at the minute it can run into thousands.

How do other clubs work this situation, do they cover all costs, expects players to pay and then re numerate them with the amout they are able to recover or let the player row his own boat?

Two parts to this. We, like you say somehow get paid in Euros' via Down CB and lose out on the exchange rate to the extent we've looked into trying to open up a Euro bank account, but there's legalities we've encountered and its looking like that won't happen.

In general it pays to shop around for the best price for scans, ops and what not and sometimes the Belfast clinics are not the cheapest.

On the other point, we as a club pick up the slack so that the players aren't out of pocket either due to any procedures or loss of earnings.