Enable Private Billing
If your health service bills patients privately, enable the Private Billing module.
To enable your health service to privately bill patients for services,
complete the following steps:
- Activate the Private Billing module:
- Select tab.
- Set Private Billing.
- In the confirmation window, to import your MBS Favourites into the private billing fee schedule, click Yes. You can adjust the fee schedule later.
- Click Save.
- Enter your authority code and click Save.
- Assign user system rights:
- Select .
- Select the user group to which you want to assign billing user rights.
- Set one or both of the following options. Tip: The following rights apply to both private billing and Medicare bulk billing.
- Billing - to allow in the user group to make claims
- Billing Administration - to allow users in the user group to administer claims
- Click Save.
- Set up at least one private billing type. See Billing Types for more information. . See
- For each billing type that is an organisation, there must be a record in the address book. To add organisations for private billing to the address book, select Search for an address. . For more information, see
- Set up the private billing fee schedule:
- If you added your MBS Favourites when you activated the module, edit these records. Otherwise, add each billing item individually.
- For each fee item, you can set a different fee for each billing type. For example, a private practice might charge $50 for a Standard Consultation to an individual and $75 for Workers Compensation because of the administrative tasks involved.
- Link a fee item to a Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item so a patient can claim a Medicare refund for the linked MBS item. For example, a Private practice short consult can be linked to MBS Item 3 - Brief Consult Level A.
- To add and edit fee schedules, select Fee Schedule for more information. . See