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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.
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.
Medicare Benefits Schedule Import
Helix is initially supplied with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) already loaded. Import updated versions as they become available.
Import MBS or DVA Fee File
Import the MBS or DVA fee update file to Helix to update the MBS and DVA fees charged by your health service.

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.
- 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.
  - Display Fee Schedules
    The fee schedules available at your health service are listed in the Fee Schedules window.
  - Customise Fee Schedules (Override Schedules)
    Create custom fee schedules (or Override Schedules), if you want to charge different fees per-state, per-practice, or even per-user.
  - Add Fees Manually
    Add new fees manually and create multiple fee rates for all the schedules.
  - Edit Fees
    Update the fee rates for existing fee schedules in Fee Schedules panel.
  - Add Private Billing Fees
    Add private billing fees to Medicare item numbers and set an effective date.
  - Medicare Benefits Schedule Import
    Helix is initially supplied with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) already loaded. Import updated versions as they become available.
    - Download MBS or DVA File
      Download the MBS or DVA fee updates released periodically by Medicare Online.
    - Import MBS or DVA Fee File
      Import the MBS or DVA fee update file to Helix to update the MBS and DVA fees charged by your health service.

Import MBS or DVA Fee File

Import the MBS or DVA fee update file to Helix to update the MBS and DVA fees charged by your health service.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Fee Schedule

About this task

Import or upload a MBS or DVA file in Fee Schedules > Upload section.

Procedure

To import a MBS or DVA file:

Download a MBS or DVA fee updates file from MedicalDirector Helix Updates. For more information, see Download MBS or DVA File.
Select user > Settings.
Select Billing > Fee Schedules.
From the Default Schedules section, select the required fee schedule tab.

The selected schedule section is displayed at the right side of the Fee Schedules panel.
In the selected fee schedule section, select Upload tab.
In the Choose a file field, click Browse and locate the MBS file you have previously downloaded from the MedicalDirector Helix Updates.
In the Effective Date calendar, select the date at which the new fees will be effective. The default date is the current date.
To import the file, click Import.

Results

The new fees are imported and the MBS and DVA fee schedules are updated.

What to do next

Your practice might have other fees that require updating, or the fee lists doesn't update the fees you require. You can manually update any remaining fees for your practice. For more information, see Fee Schedules.