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Make electronic claims with Services Australia, including Bulk Bill claims, or if your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, bill a patient privately; and balance your banking records.
Banking
Use the Bank panel to view deposited items and balance your banking records.
Deposit cheques and cash
Record that balanced items were deposited into your bank account.

Finance
Make electronic claims with Services Australia, including Bulk Bill claims, or if your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, bill a patient privately; and balance your banking records.
- Record a Visit
  Create a visit for a patient, add the patient to the patient queue, and initiate the billing process for all types of visits. Alternatively for previous consults, create a visit and bill the patient.
- Patient Claims
  For private billing, transmit patient claims to Medicare so that patients can receive a rebate from Medicare as part of the billing process.
- Medicare Bulk Bill
  For eligible patients, bulk bill the cost of the consult directly to Medicare, using Medicare Australia's online claiming.
- Workers Compensation
  Process Workers' Compensation claims using Helix
- Invoices
  If required, adjust any visit details for a patient's private invoice after it has been issued.
- Receipts
  When payment has been received from an account holder or Services Australia, receipting can be performed for all invoices.
- Transaction History
  View the transaction history for individual patients or account holders, refunds and write-off summaries.
- Banking
  Use the Bank panel to view deposited items and balance your banking records.
  - Access banking information
    View the unbalanced, balanced and deposited items in your banking records.
  - Balance unbalanced items
    Balance unbalanced cash and cheques so they can be deposited.
  - Deposit cheques and cash
    Record that balanced items were deposited into your bank account.
  - Payment types
    These icons indicate how payments were deposited.
- Financial Reports
  Helix provides these reports on the Financial Reports tab.

Deposit cheques and cash

Record that balanced items were deposited into your bank account.

Before you begin

Permissions:

View Banking Records

About this task

Balanced items are ordered from newest to oldest. First, deposit the oldest balanced items in the Balanced tab.

Procedure

To deposit the balance items:

Check the values of the cash and text against the actual cash and cheques held at the centre for that day.
On the Balanced tab, expand the date and centre.
If the amount is correct, select the associated check box.

Tip:
To view the payment type for the required item, hover your mouse over the payment icon. For more information, see Payment types.
Click Deposit.
In the Create Deposit confirmation window, enter your credential details:
1. In the Deposit ID field, enter the deposit ID.
2. In the User Signoff section, enter your username and password.
3. In the Witness Signoff section, enter the witness user's username and password and use a domain account.
Click Confirm.

Results

Balanced items are moved to the Deposited list. The Deposited list displays all deposited payments made for the selected period. They are listed by date, centre, role, patient and payment type.
Example deposited items

Example deposited items