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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.
Receipts
When payment has been received from an account holder or Services Australia, receipting can be performed for all invoices.
Medicare Receipting
When a payment has been received from Services Australia, receipting can be performed.

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.
  - Bulk Receipting
    When a payment has been received from an account holder, bulk receipting can be performed for all invoices listed under that account holder.
  - Medicare Receipting
    When a payment has been received from Services Australia, receipting can be performed.
  - Adjust Receipts
    If required, adjust any visit details for a patient's receipt after it has been issued.
- 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.

Medicare Receipting

When a payment has been received from Services Australia, receipting can be performed.

About this task

Pay the invoices of Medicare Receipting from Receipt section.

Procedure

To perform the Medicare Receipting:

Select Claiming, Banking, and Payments > Receipt from the menu.
In the Receipt panel, select Medicare Receipting from the list.
In the Centre field, select a centre from the list.
In the Search by ref # field, enter the reference number (batch number) for the batch that was sent to Services Australia.
The batch is displayed in the Medicare Receipting section.
To display the associated items, click the batch.
To add the items you want in the Payment section, click Add to Payment.
In the Receipting Centre field, select a receipting centre from the list.
In the Reference field, enter a reference number for the payment.

Note: This is mandatory and supplied by Services Australia.
In the Payment section, select the payment type:
- Direct Deposit and Cheque are available for Services Australia payments.
- To complete a payment, enter the required bank details.
In the Pay field, enter the payment amount.
To pay the amount, click Pay.

Results

A record of the paid batch item is displayed in the Bank tab and in the Transaction History section. For more information, see Banking and Transaction History.