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Medicare and Health Funds are now able to process claims for payment electronically. According to Medicare Australia, this will speed up the processing of claims and reduce the incidence of errors. Claims for no- and known-gap accounts can be sent in one transaction to Medicare and health funds. With appropriate verification, payments will be made and reports returned to the practice location software. Eclipse will also allow instant verification of the Medicare eligibility status of patients, and their health fund membership.
Before you can send claims electronically, you must register with Medicare Australia. This process takes about 2 weeks. See the Getting started section for full details on registration, installation and setting up Access Anaesthetics.
Accounts are created in the normal way. Then, rather than print and mail the account, use the Eclipse tab to send the account electronically. You can track the status of claims from within the system. When a claim is processed, a processing and payment report is retrieved electronically, and is used to finalize the account.
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