Formats, specifications and downloads
The following documents are designed to enable software vendors to integrate claims information into the document formats required for the exchange of electronic data with Medicare Australia. These documents are provided as Adobe Acrobat pdf files.
For more information about formats and specifications contact Medicare Australia's Online Technical Support Helpdesk on 1300 550 115.
Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR)
The following document provides the current vaccine codes available for sending immunisation claims to the ACIR using Internet Data Interchange (IDI).
ACIR is incorporated into Human Services' online claiming Client Adaptor. For more information about online claiming formats call the Online Technical Support Helpdesk on 1300 550 115.
DVA veteran treatment accounts
The Department of Veterans' Affairs exists to serve members of Australia's veteran and defence force communities, war widows and widowers, widows and dependants, through programs of care, compensation, commemoration and defence support services.
Medicare Australia has entered into a new five-year services agreement with DVA and the Repatriation Commission to continue to provide processing services for veterans' treatment accounts. The services agreement is based on a two-tiered payment arrangement comprising a fixed charge and a variable charge per transaction processed.
Veterans' treatment accounts bulk bill has now been incorporated into the online claiming Client Adaptor. For more information about online claiming formats call the Online Technical Support Helpdesk on 1300 550 115.
Online claiming
The formats required for online claiming are contained in the online claiming Client Adaptor. For more information call the Online Technical Support Helpdesk on 1300 550 115.
PBS CTS document formats
For get a copy of the PBS message formats call the Online Technical Support Helpdesk on 1300 550 115 or email: pbsonline@humanservices.gov.au
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Unacceptable characters in ECLIPSE
When transmitting ECLIPSE In-patient Medical Claims (IMC), In Hospital Claims (IHC) and Online Eligibility Checks (OEC), certain characters cannot be accepted as it will cause the transmission to fail.
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Last updated: 18 January, 2013