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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.
Configure Centre Billing
Add your centre's account details, default billing type, default billing items for different scenarios and your Modified Monach Category for Medicarebilling incentive items.
Configure Default Private Billing Type
For eligible patients, Helix automatically adds private billing incentive items to a service for a consult.

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.
- Add Billing Items for a Consult
  Create or modify the list of items to be billed for the current consult.
- 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.
- Financial Reports
  Helix provides these reports on the Financial Reports tab.
- Configure Centre Billing
  Add your centre's account details, default billing type, default billing items for different scenarios and your Modified Monach Category for Medicarebilling incentive items.
  - Medicare Bulk Billing Incentives
    For eligible patients, Helix automatically adds Medicare billing incentive items to a service for a consult.
  - Configure Default Private Billing Type
    For eligible patients, Helix automatically adds private billing incentive items to a service for a consult.
- Fee Schedules
  Maintain the default fee schedule for patient services that are not bulk billed or DVA-related, import updated MBS and DVA fee schedules into your instance of Helix, and create customised fee schedules.

Configure Default Private Billing Type

For eligible patients, Helix automatically adds private billing incentive items to a service for a consult.

Before you begin

For private billing type, you must add a new fee item for the required billing code in the Fee Schedules > Default Schedule > Edit Fee panel. For more information, see Add Private Billing Fees.

About this task

Configure a default billing type for private visits in the Billing tab for your centre.

Procedure

To set a private billing type:

Select user > Settings.
Select Centre > Centre Settings.
For your centre, hover the mouse over your centre name and click Edit.
In the Centre Management window, select the Billing tab.
From the Default billing type list, select Private.
To set bulk billing incentives, either:
- From the Modified Monash Category list, select the category for your centre, for example MM1 - Metropolitan areas. Incentive items are automatically added for eligible patients to all eligible bulk billing items, for example, 75870 is added for items 23, 36, 44, 123.
- In the Custom Default Bulk Billing Incentive Item No field, enter the number of the billing incentive item that you want applied for relevant private visit items for eligible patients.
If required, add default incentive items which are automatically included for other billing types:
- Default First Available Item No
- Default First Available After Hours Item No
- Workers Comp First Available Item No
- Workers Comp First Available After Hours Item No
- Workers Comp First Visit Additional Item No
- Credit Card Surcharge Item No
Click Save.

Results

The incentive items are automatically added to private visits with any healthcare practitioner.