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9. Processing Medicare claim Transactions – Pathology
Services
9.1 Bulk Bill claims
A Bulk Bill claim is a claim made by a medical practitioner who undertakes to accept the
relevant Medicare benefit(s) as full payment for the service(s) provided by that medical
practitioner to the patient and where the right to that Medicare benefit(s) has been
assigned to the medical practitioner by the patient.
It is the medical practitioner’s discretion whether to bulk bill a patient or not.
This section illustrates the steps to process Bulk Bill claims for Pathology Clinics.
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SWIPE OR
INSERT
CARD
From the ANZ idle screen, keep pressing ENTER
until the ‘SERVICES’ screen is displayed.
SERVICES
XTRA
Select XTRA from the menu by pressing the
CHQ soft-function key.
SERVICES
1 MEDICARE EASYCLAIM
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Press 1 to select MEDICARE EASYCLAIM.
MEDICARE EASYCLAIM
1 PATIENT CLAIM
2 BULK BILL CLAIM
3 PATIENT EXPRESS
4 BULK BILL EXPRESS
Press 2 to select BULK BILL CLAIM. Press
4 to select BULK BILL EXPRESS (for more
information on Express Claims, please refer to
section 3).
CLAIM TYPE
1 GENERAL PRACTICE
2 SPECIAL/AH/DENTAL
3 DIAGNOSTIC
4 PATHOLOGY
Press 4 to select PATHOLOGY.
PATIENT CARD
SWIPE CARD OR KEY
Swipe the patient’s Medicare card, or enter the
Medicare card number then press ENTER.
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