15–30% of direct hospital invoices get rejected on first submission. LocumBill fixes that.
LocumBill
For independent physicians and nurse practitioners billing hospitals directly

Your invoice arrives complete. Payment lands in 28 days or fewer.

Today, 15–30% of direct hospital invoices get rejected for a missing license or wrong format — pushing your payment back 30–60 days. LocumBill checks every requirement before you hit send, so 90% or more of your invoices are accepted on the very first submission.

First-submission acceptance rate: 90%+ Paid in under 28 days
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Invoice #0047 — St. Carver Regional Medical Center Ready to send

Pre-flight check — hospital requirements

State medical license — expires Jan 2027
Malpractice certificate of insurance attached
National provider number — verified
Purchase order #PO-8821 — included
Format — PDF, per billing office spec
Total due $18,400
Why invoices get stuck

A single missing document pushes your payment back a full month.

Hospital billing offices have their own checklist — specific documents, formats, and codes. When your invoice arrives incomplete, it bounces. The clock restarts. You wait another 30–60 days.

Credential gaps cause rejections

An expired license or missing certificate of insurance is the most common reason a billing office returns an invoice unpaid.

Each hospital has different rules

Some require a purchase order number. Some use a vendor submission portal. Some want documents in a specific order. There is no single standard.

Delays add up to real money

A rejected $20,000 invoice sitting unpaid for 45 extra days is a cash-flow problem, not a minor inconvenience.

Platform capabilities

Everything the billing office needs — built in and sent automatically.

Your credentials live in one place. Every invoice that leaves carries them — current, complete, and formatted for the specific hospital receiving it.

Credential vault with expiry alerts

Medical license, drug registration, malpractice certificate, and provider number stored in one place. Alerts go out 60 and 30 days before anything expires. Documents attach to every invoice automatically.

Per-hospital billing profile

Each hospital's requirements — purchase order codes, portal credentials, document order, and format rules — stored and applied automatically. You never have to ask again or guess when switching hospitals.

Shift log with co-signed time records

Log each shift. The hospital's staffing contact signs off digitally. If a shift count is ever disputed, you have a timestamped, co-signed record — no weeks of chasing emails to resolve it.

Invoice pre-flight checker

Before anything goes out, the platform runs your invoice against the destination hospital's requirements. Missing documents, expired credentials, absent purchase order numbers, and format mismatches are flagged before submission — not two weeks after.

Works with your existing tools

Connects to your accounting software and hospital portals automatically.

Invoice status flows into your books the moment a payment clears. No manual reconciliation, no "sent but not received" confusion.

QuickBooks Online & Xero

Invoice status syncs when the hospital pays — your books reflect actual receipts, not guesses.

Hospital vendor portals

Portal login credentials and submission steps stored per hospital — submitted through the right channel every time.

National provider registry

Your provider number auto-populates on every invoice so billing offices verify you without back-and-forth.

Malpractice carrier documents

Certificate of insurance and policy limits pulled from your vault and attached in the format each hospital expects.

Who it fits

Built for one kind of clinician: the one billing hospitals directly, on their own.

No staffing agency. No billing department. Just you, your contracts, and a hospital accounts payable inbox that has its own rules.

Independent physicians

Doctors operating through a personal professional corporation or sole proprietorship, invoicing $5,000–$80,000 per hospital engagement directly.

Nurse practitioners on direct contracts

Clinicians invoicing $2,000–$15,000 per engagement, managing three to eight hospital relationships with no shared billing team.

Small physician groups (2–5 doctors)

Multiple providers, multiple licenses, multiple hospitals — credential expiry and billing profiles multiplied. One administrator keeps it all correct from a single dashboard.

Early results

The numbers from our launch cohort.

Two hundred independent clinicians in the launch group. These are the outcomes they reported after their first three submission cycles.

90%+

First-submission acceptance rate among launch cohort members (up from an industry average of 70–85%).

Under 28 days

Average time from invoice sent to payment received — down from 45–75 days with repeated rejections.

Human support within one business day No percentage of invoice fees — ever

"I had a $22,000 invoice rejected twice for credential issues before I found LocumBill. The first one I sent through the platform cleared without a single bounce-back. Payment landed on day 24."

Independent hospitalist physician, Midwest

"Tracking which documents each of my six hospitals requires was a nightmare spreadsheet. Now it just happens. The platform knows each billing office's rules, and my invoices go out correct without me managing it manually."

Nurse practitioner, six direct hospital contracts

Flat pricing

A flat monthly fee. No percentage of your invoices — ever.

A single avoided rejection cycle on a $20,000 invoice saves you 45 days of waiting. LocumBill's monthly cost covers itself on the first clean submission.

Free trial

Send your first invoice to a hospital already in the billing-office profile database. No card needed. The value is proven on the first successful submission.

Most popular

Solo physician plan

One clinician, unlimited invoices, up to eight hospital billing profiles. Full credential vault, expiry alerts, and pre-flight checker included.

Small group plan

Two to five clinicians sharing a credential library and billing across multiple hospitals. Group credential management and per-hospital profiles included.

Your invoice. Your hospital. Your payment window.

Send your first invoice and watch it clear.

Independent clinicians billing hospitals directly deserve a tool that knows what each billing office requires — and makes sure every invoice arrives complete, the first time it goes out.

See the results

Free trial — no card needed. First invoice sent to a hospital already in the database.