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DVA Claim — General

How do I lodge a DVA claim for general medical services?

Use this endpoint, with one claim in each submission. A claim holds up to 80 medical events, with up to 14 services in each.

Submit a DVA general medical claim on behalf of a health professional.

Use this endpoint for general (non-specialist, non-pathology) DVA medical services. Set serviceTypeCode to O.

General-only constraint. Leave referral, referralOverrideCode and selfDeemedCode out of every medical event. A general claim that carries any of them is rejected with 2030.

For Accepted Disability, patient identification and the claim ID format, see DVA claims. For the status codes, including what to do on 9777 and 3004, see Status codes. If a claim gets no response, follow When a claim gets no response, which also gives the client timeout to set.

Authentication

x-api-keystring
API Key authentication via header
x-minor-idstring

Your Minor ID is 3 uppercase letters followed by 5 digits, such as MDE00000. Send the Minor ID exactly as issued. A malformed value returns 400 with the text The Minor ID is not valid. on every endpoint.

Headers

x-minor-idstringRequired

The Minor ID of the clinic you act for. See Keys, Minor ID and environments.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.
claimobjectRequired
correlationIdstringOptionalformat: "^urn:uuid:[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{5}[A-Za-z0-9]{16}$"=33 characters

Your identifier for this claim, 33 characters: urn:uuid:, then the Minor ID you send in x-minor-id, then 16 letters or digits, as in urn:uuid:MDE00000a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8.

Send your own on every claim, and store it before you send. You fetch the claim’s processing and payment reports with it. If you omit it, RebateRight generates one. When to use a new value and when to reuse one is set out in Correlation ID.

Response

OK
claimIdstringOptional

Unique claim identifier assigned by Services Australia, made of a letter prefix, 4 digits and @, for example D0742@.

statusstringOptional

Always SUCCESS on a successful submission.

correlationIdstringOptional

Errors

400
Bad Request Error