The Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance
MBS Note AN.0.12 states that “practitioners who accept assigned benefits must claim from Services Australia using either Claim for Assigned Benefits form DB1N or DB1H. Are these forms required…
read more >If a patient has treatment on Monday-Friday, could they just sign on the Friday for all events that week? Or do they have to sign the bulk bill voucher every day at the end of treatment?
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read more >Patients requiring radiation oncology therapy may require daily treatment over several weeks. Are they required to consent to assign their benefit for every radiation oncology appointment?
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read more >I am a nurse practitioner (NP) and am locked in a debate with my public hospital employer/management about MBS billing of NP services provided to public hospital outpatients. Is this allowed?
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Is a verbal consent noted in the patient’s file enough? If a bulk billed patient has to provide consent by signature for items put through to Medicare this creates additional admin work, in particul…
read more >This question came from a consumer.
I am an inpatient in a private mental health unit in a private hospital. I am under an inpatient psychiatrist. While I am an inpatient, I have a telehealth…
This questioner said that every time they called Medicare about this, they received different advice and were concerned they may be billing incorrectly. The setting was outpatient sleep studies whic…
read more >This physiotherapist was under a misunderstanding that there existed a separate bulk billing law just for allied health professionals.
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read more >The questioner added that everything they had read talks about telehealth items only. Their understanding was that the assignment of benefit is only required for consultation items but not for…
read more >I’m a Nurse Practitioner working in a small rural centre. I am a public employee 4 days a week and work privately on one day in the co-located primary health clinic/urgent care centre, which I…
read more >A GP practice wanted to know how to “manage” facility fees for bulk billing patients. The question said that the practice needed to charge this fee to cover the cost of consumables, but the doctors …
read more >How can I obtain the patient’s signature consenting to bulk billing over a phone call, through a telehealth video consultation or in circumstances where the patient is not required to be phy…
read more >The question posed was: Can the bulk bill “Assignment of Benefit” be specific to the hospital setting? We understand that patients sign this upon admission, and while it is not specific to any…
read more >BB 2020/061
Last updated 19 September 2024
Answer
Yes
Context
The question asked had two components. The first was whether the patient has to sign the bulk bill voucher an…
read more >Annual enrolment or membership fees have become a controversial feature of bulk billing GP practices in recent years. One example was the now defunct National Health Co-op in the ACT, which publicly…
read more >A gastroenterology practice asked whether a service provider providing two services to a patient on the same day, one for which there is an MBS item number, and the other for which there is no…
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