All You Need To Know About Bulk Billing

Posted by Coreoptique on October 24th, 2019

When you think ‘ who can be the ideal bulk billing optometrist near me?’ there are many questions that pop in your mind. In this article, you will learn about the basic concept of bulk billing which will help you to make the most out of it.

Bulk Billing is a payment option under the Medicare system of universal health insurance in Australia. It covers a certain range of health services which is listed in the Medicare benefits. Usually, the doctors are paid 85% of the fee directly by the government for billing the patient via the medicare card.

 The doctors accept the medicare benefits as full payment for the service provided. The doctor sends the bill directly to Medicare. The patients cannot be charged additionally for the service. They have the right to collect a fee from the patients directly.

Most of the general practitioner services are bulk billed. The key purpose of billing is to provide an economic constraint on medical charges. If the patients are bulk billed, then the patient's Medicare card will be swiped and the patients will be asked to sign in a form and will not need to pay anything.

Medicare also provides extra payments to doctors every time for bulk billing pensioners, health care cardholders and for those who are aged 16 and under. If they bulk bill the above-mentioned patients, the patients will be asked to sign in a form after the appointment and will be given a copy of the form. They will not be charged for any other costs such as booking of the appointment, charge for the bandages.

Below listed is the correct process to manually bulk bill is

• Complete the form

• Have the form signed by the patient

• Give a copy of the form to the patient

• Submit the form with Billing form, in order to make a claim.

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