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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.
Financial Reports
Helix provides these reports on the Financial Reports tab.
PIP QI Reporting
The Practice Improvement Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) reports include the latest Department of Health changes based on specifications documents and data extract file requirements issued on the 28th August 2020.
Generate the PIP QI Report
Generate and download a PIP eligible data set from Reports.

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.
  - Generate Financial Reports
    Generate various types of financial reports from the Financial Reports tab.
  - PIP QI Reporting
    The Practice Improvement Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) reports include the latest Department of Health changes based on specifications documents and data extract file requirements issued on the 28th August 2020.
    - PIP QI Data JSON Extract File
      Generate a data file to submit to your PHN.
    - Data and PIP QI Reports
      To include data from Helix in the PIP QI Report, it must be entered in the correct area in Helix. Inbox results received for pathology are also included.
    - Generate the PIP QI Report
      Generate and download a PIP eligible data set from Reports.
  - Report Controls
    Use these controls to preview documents included in Helix.
- 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.
- 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.

Generate the PIP QI Report

Generate and download a PIP eligible data set from Reports.

Procedure

To generate and download a PIP QI report:

To open the Reports panel, select Reports > Financial Reports.
From the Report name list, select PIP QI under the General section.

The PIP QI report is displayed. For example, the report has been generated and is ready to download.
To generate a report, click Request JSON, Excel & PDF. You will be prompted to confirm.
- Your report request is added to a queue. It may take some time before your report is generated, during which you can continue to work in Helix.
- When Helix begins generating the report, you will be notified as GENERATING.
Once the report is generated and ready to download, click READY TO DOWNLOAD.

Results

The report is downloaded to your computer. Check your browser for your local download location. The report file format is Helix-PIPQI-YYYY-MM-DD.zip.