Patient Claims

Delayed Patient Claiming
Sometimes you might see a patient via teleconsult or in a remote location where you don't have confirmation of payment in advance, but still want to pe...
Thu, 30 Apr, 2020 at 11:40 AM
Part-Paid Patient Claiming
To do a part-paid patient claim, make sure the patient's account has the "Use Medicare Online" tick on, and then click cash consultation. ...
Mon, 19 Dec, 2016 at 7:27 AM
Claimant Setup
A claimant is someone receiving the rebate for a Medicare patient claim, usually because they are the one paying for the service, i.e. the account holder. ...
Wed, 27 Jul, 2022 at 11:47 AM
Online Patient Claims
Note: For In-Hospital patient claims, refer to the ECLIPSE guides. Note: We suggest using Interactive Patient Claims, which can be turned on via Account...
Thu, 13 Dec, 2018 at 11:12 AM
Interactive vs Store & Forward Patient Claims
There are 2 styles of patient claiming: Store & Forward - store the claim, and send it later. Interactive - send the claim immediately. Th...
Fri, 30 Jun, 2017 at 9:36 AM
9202 BSBCode
In early versions of Medilink 2022 R1 there was a bug where if claiming done where the patient/claimant had supplied bank details and the BSB had a leading ...
Fri, 11 Mar, 2022 at 6:02 PM
9202 PatientContribAmount
In early 2022 R1 Update versions if you tried to make an Unpaid Patient Claim you would get a 9202 error about the PatientContribAmount not being long enoug...
Mon, 14 Mar, 2022 at 3:10 PM
Patient Claim Invoice Cancelled But Prints Lodgement Advice
We have found a bug that exists in some 2022 R1 versions where a patient claim can be rejected by Medicare and a user is presented with error messages (&quo...
Tue, 15 Mar, 2022 at 11:05 AM
Patient Claim Not Lodged 9601 9641
In early 2022 R1 versions, patient claims that had a status of PENDABLE (i.e. received an ACCEPTABLE level error, e.g. 9641 error etc.) were not being resub...
Fri, 8 Apr, 2022 at 8:21 AM
Patient Claim Invoice Cancelled
If you have submitted a Medicare Online Patient Claim and it was rejected (due to claim error, transmission error etc) you will see an error "This Invo...
Wed, 15 Mar, 2023 at 8:02 AM