Services Australia API - Release Notes
Check here for the latest updates to the Services Australia API.
Tip:
The
TelstraHealth.ServicesAustralia.Api is documented at: https://ap-aue-dev-servicesaustralia-th-api.azurewebsites.net/api-docs/index.html#/Immunisations.
30 April 2026
- For MyMedicare:
- For MyMedicare, added integration with Services Australia endpoints.
- For MyMedicare, added new APIs
to check a patient's status:
- Patient Registration Complete Enquiry Web Service (PRCE) - checks if a patient is registered with MyMedicare and the provider nominated, if any.
- Patient Registration Pending Enquiry Web Service (PRPE) - checks whether a patient has a pending registration with MyMedicare.
- Patient Registration Eligibility Enquiry Web Service (PREE) - checks if a patient is eligible for MyMedicare if they are not registered.
- Patient Registration Scheme Enquiry Web Service (PRSE) - checks if a registered patient is participating in any MyMedicare schemes.
- For
Immunisations:
- AIR rules are now updated from Services Australia using the Services Australia API. The Services Australia API calls Services Australia's AIR Vaccine APIs and uploads the JSON response files directly to Azure Blob Storage every 7 days ready for the AirDataUpdater to download and update the AIR Rule tables in the Communicare database.
- Added a
GetValidCountryCodes method to
AirReferenceData to connect to Services
Australia's Get the list of valid country codes
API.
When recording an immunisation or when you update an encounter, when you set Administered overseas, select from the list of country codes provided by Services Australia.
14 January 2025
- Added support for the new Antenatal field available when recording an immunisation for a pregnant, female patient or when editing an encounter in the AIR Portal.
- Fixed a bug which was preventing users from editing and saving updates in the AIR Portal as required by AIR.
8 August 2024
- For AIR claims that require confirmation, all immunisations in a service are marked as Confirmation Sent if one is and are displayed in the AIR portal.
11 February - 22 April 2024
For Communicare V22.4:
- Added support for VaccineFundingType and RouteOfAdministration properties for AIR 1.3 conformance.
- Added support for the country code of immunisations administered overseas.
- Added support for the following fields: Only Name, Gender, Initial (middle name).
26 May 2023
- To fix a device expiry refresh issue, updated the device expiry when getting an access token.
22 July 2022
- Added the ability to force an update of a failed Bulk Bill Claim.
8 July 2022
Bug fixes:
- Assessment Details for each service are now included in the BulkBillClaimAssessed event.
10 June 2022
What's new:
- If the location-specific provider is set, the time duration is no longer included in the Medication submission.
27 May 2022
What's new:
- Added the ability to check if a PRODA device is working.
- Added ability to resubmit failed claims from swagger.
13 May 2022
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a transaction error which occurred after 90 seconds when carrying out bulk Medicare card verifications.
29 April 2022
What's new:
- To reduce the time taken to complete a claim, the bulk bill payment report is now fetched immediately after a successful assessment report.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where bulk bill claims where being submitted to Medicare without referral and additional information.
15 April 2022
What's new:
- Added validation for given name and family name for Medicare Bulk Bill requests.
- Added validation for Legacy Claim Validation to check if the lodged date is older than a predefined number of days.
1 April 2022
Bug fixes:
- Removed character 50 limit on device and customer search.
- Improved performance of bulk Medicare verification when processing individual requests.
18 March 2022
What's new:
- Added ability to automatically resubmit Bilk Bill Claims to Medicare if a failure or error occurs while submitting a Bulk Bill Claim. Retry only occurs if it is enabled and the error from Medicare matches the configured Retry rules.
- Added Assessed status (Fully Paid, Partially Paid, Rejected) to service level.
18 February 2022
Bug fixes:
- Fixed issue with application name and PRODA client identifier not being updated during reregistration of an existing device.
21 January 2022
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with concurrent processing of bulk Medicare verification requests.
- Fixed an issue where bulk bill payment report processing would be delayed by 24 hours.
7 January 2022
Bug fixes:
- Device submissions now correctly log a payload and response when exceptions occur.
- Precached device access for bulk bill and bulk Medicare card verification compose events to prevent a concurrency issue where we fetch a device token multiple times.
10 December 2021
What's new:
- Improved performance of various search operations.
26 November 2021
What's new:
-
Extended patient claim workflow to support better validation when deleting and holding claims for review.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where an empty string on payee provider number was not correctly validated for bulk bill claims.
- Fixed an issue where the device audit created by user value was incorrectly set under some circumstances.
