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Make electronic claims with Medicare Australia, including Bulk Bill claims or if your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, bill a patient privately.
Online Claiming
If your clinic is set up to make claims from Medicare, providers or reception can submit a Medicare claim electronically, either from the Service Record after closing a clinical record, or by opening the Service Record from the Service Recording window.
History of MBS Items for a Patient
Review the history of MBS items claimed for a patient.

Finance
Make electronic claims with Medicare Australia, including Bulk Bill claims or if your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, bill a patient privately.
- Online Claiming
  If your clinic is set up to make claims from Medicare, providers or reception can submit a Medicare claim electronically, either from the Service Record after closing a clinical record, or by opening the Service Record from the Service Recording window.
  - Getting Started with Online Claiming
    Before you can use Electronic Claims you must be registered with Medicare Australia.
  - Bulk Bill Claims (Online Claiming)
    Use the File > Online Claiming > Bulk Bill Claims tab to manage claims bulk billed to Medicare using Medicare Australia's online claiming, where the cost of the encounter is covered by Medicare.
  - Australian Immunisation Register uploads
    Use the File > Online Claiming > AIR Claims tab to view a list of all immunisations recorded in Communicare where the immunisation type has a valid AIR code, and to check that the immunisation record has been successfully uploaded to Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
  - Check Medicare Card Eligibility
    Use the Check Medicare Card for Bulk Bill Eligibility window to help manage your patients' Medicare details.
  - Claiming Medicare from Service Recording (Reception)
    If your health service is integrated with Medicare, reception can submit an electronic claim from the Service Recording window after the clinician has closed the service.
  - Claiming Medicare (Doctor)
    If your health service is integrated with Medicare, you can submit an electronic claim when you close a service if you are the provider.
  - History of MBS Items for a Patient
    Review the history of MBS items claimed for a patient.
  - Allied Health Claims in Communicare
  - Aftercare
  - Not duplicate service
  - Not part of a multiple procedure
  - Patient Claim Management
    Patient Claims are Medicare Claims lodged by patients who have received professional medical services, but have not assigned their rights to Medicare benefits to the Servicing Practitioner.
- Private Billing
  If your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, enable the Private Billing module so that your health service can bill a patient privately.

History of MBS Items for a Patient

Review the history of MBS items claimed for a patient.

To display the MBS item history, either:

In a patient's record, click Claims.
In the Service Record window, click MBS Items History.

The History of MBS Items window lists the date of service and the MBS items claimed. When using Online Claiming the payment status, whether the item has been paid or not, is also displayed.

If an item has been marked for claiming but not yet claimed the provider name will be empty.

Items marked with an asterisk (*) indicate Inpatient Service.

To search for particular items:

Click the column header for the column you want to search. For example, MBS Item. The selected column header displays either of the following icons depending on the display order you have chosen (youngest first, highest item number first and so on): .
In the Locate field, enter an exact search term and press Enter. For example, 10991 or for a date, 19/10/2022.

The first occurrence of the matching term is selected.
Example History of MBS Items claim search

Example History of MBS Items claim search

7 July 2025