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January 2012

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January 2012

Revised provider percentile charts
The provider percentile charts have been revised and are now available for additional health services. The charts are designed to help you compare your statistics with your peers.

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Medicare forms

The application forms in this category cover some aspects of provider, patient and equipment eligibility. Lodgment details are listed on each form.

For enquiries about provider eligibility please call 132 150 (local call rates).

For enquiries about patient eligibility please call 132 011 (local call rates).

For general PBS and stationery enquiries please call 132 290 (local call rates).

Application for prescriber number for a registered medical practitioner

Bulk Bill Claim Forms

Pay Group Link

A pay group link enables a practitioner to have Medicare benefit cheques, which would have been issued payable to that practitioner at his/her practice address, made payable to another payee associated with the practice and/or another address.

Where the payee is a third party, the payee (or person properly authorised in the case of a body corporate or other entity) must agree to the arrangement by counter-signing the application form.

Medicare Allied Health and Dental Care Initiative

The new Medicare allied health and dental care initiative allows chronically ill people who are being managed by their GP under a Chronic Disease Management (CDM) plan access to Medicare rebates for allied health services.

Referral forms

Referral forms are available on the Department of Health and AgeingExternal link website or by faxing a request to (02) 6289 7120.

Eligibility

MRI Statutory Declaration

Pathology Laboratory Application

Approved Pathology Practitioner Application

Remote Area Exemption

EFT Payments for Claims

Certification of Cleft Condition form

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Statutory Declaration

Application for Late Lodgment of a claim for Assigned Medicare Benefits

Electronic referral requests

If you would like to transmit, scan and/or store Referrals or Requests electronically, please refer to the following Medicare Australia IT standards.

Voluntary Acknowledgement of Incorrect Payments form

The Voluntary acknowledgement of incorrect payments form allows health professionals to voluntarily tell the Department of Human Services of any incorrect payments that may have been received under the Medicare program. This form can be used any time a health professional becomes aware of receiving an incorrect payment.

Note: clinical notes or money for incorrect payments should not accompany the form. The Department of Human Services will contact you once the form is received.

To voluntarily tell the Department of Human Services about incorrect payments, you must complete the approved Voluntary acknowledgement of incorrect payments [PDF, 128Kb]PDF reader required form.

Review of Decision form

Under the amended Health Insurance Act 1973, health professionals have the opportunity to seek a review of decision relating to a Medicare compliance audit outcome if there is an amount recoverable. The request for a review of decision must be received within 28 days of receipt of a notice of decision.

To request a review of decision, the approved Review of Decision [PDF, 110Kb]PDF reader required form must be completed.

If a health professional is eligible for a review of decision they will be notified of the outcome, generally, within 28 days of the Department of Human Services receiving the application.

If you have feedback in relation to a Medicare compliance audit finding then please email: 

compliance.review@medicareaustralia.gov.auEmail

Alternatively you can mail your feedback to:

Mail
Compliance Complaints and Internal Review Section
Department of Human Services – Medicare
GPO Box 9822
Perth WA 6848

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Last updated: 28 September, 2011