You are able to bill for cryostorage for contracts that have started in the past, whether it be an annual, monthly, or semi-annually billed contract.
Contracts for which there is only one overdue invoice payment
If there is only one overdue invoice payment, there will be a single invoice sent at the time of the cryostorage contract being created. The next invoice will be sent at one relevant billing interval (per the invoicing strategy) after the indicated start date.
Example: Storage started in October, and an annual storage contract is created in March. The contract is backdated to have started in October.
The patient will receive their first invoice for annual storage in March, as soon as the contract is created
The patient will receive their second invoice for annual storage in October, 7 months after the first invoice, in line with the date of the indicated (backdated) start of the contract
Contracts for which there is more than one overdue invoice payment
If there is more than one overdue invoice payment, there will be one invoice and payment request sent each day, until the full overdue balance has been sent for.
Example: Storage started in October, and a monthly storage contract is created the following March. The contract is backdated to have started in October, and the patient is missing 5 months of payment
The patient will receive one invoice as soon as the contract is created
The patient will receive one invoice each of the following four days after the creation of the contract, until they have received five invoices total, to account for the remaining outstanding invoices
The patient will receive their next invoice (in April) on the day of the month at which the contract was indicated to have started
For example, if indicated to have started on October 9th, their next regular invoice will be sent on April 9th