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 January 2026
Answer
Yes
Context
The question asked had two components. The first was whether the patient has to sign the bulk bill voucher and the…
read more >Annual enrolment or membership fees have been 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 c…
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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