The Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance
When can you bill a new patient item (e.g. 110) when a patient is privately admitted to a public hospital but is already known in some way in outpatients to your clinical team?
E.g. When a pa…
The CFO of our public hospital gave a talk on Medicare billing recently and told us that any referral written by anyone other than a GP or specialist exercising a ROPP cannot be used to bill M…
read more >If a specialist leaves one practice and joins another new practice, do the patients following this specialist from the old to the new practice need a new referral? It will be very difficult to…
read more >On an internal referral written by a Specialist/ Physician does the patients GP details have to be written as per the Health Insurance Regs Section 99. As it is an internal referral the patien…
read more >If Doctor A writes a named referral to Doctor B from Doctor A’s private rooms to a public hospital outpatient clinic and through the triage process Doctor A is assigned the patient to treat in…
read more >If you work in multiple outpatient locations, and first see the patient in Location A for an initial consult and bill a 110, can you provide a follow up consult from Location B (which has a di…
read more >This question relates to medical specialists exercising rights of private practice in public hospital outpatient departments. The questioner wanted to know if both Dr ABC and XYZ can use the r…
read more >I have a question regarding the validity of referrals sent via fax without a GP signature. All too frequently the GP gives the client the only signed hard copy and they either lose it or turn up w…
read more >In the last 12 months or so, I’ve had repeated problems with referrals marked “indefinite” by the GP. These will be accepted by Medicare for some time, then randomly start getting rejected. Re…
read more >Obstetrician A is going overseas. Obstetrician A’s patients due for delivery while she is away will be looked after by Obstetrician B for antenatal visits billing 16500. Obstetrician B usually…
read more >I am a rehabilitation specialist working in a private hospital doing Day Rehab (patients are inpatients as they are admitted for the day). Usually, I see patients on the day they attend therap…
read more >I am working in a day rehabilitation setting at a private hospital (patients are admitted for the day for allied health interventions mostly after joint replacements and are inpatients when I …
read more >If I see patients referred to me in the public clinic, and they are unwell and require admission to hospital at presentation to the clinic as patients with chronic disease sometimes are, do I …
read more >This FACEM was planning to open a walk-in emergency clinic similar to a GP urgent care centre. Importantly, this would not be an approved private emergency department (ED).
The following …
When a podiatrist has received a referral from a GP to be involved in a coordinated care plan, can their receptionist sign the acceptance of the referral?
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