Bulk Bill Claim — Pathology | RebateRight

curl -X POST https://api.rebateright.com.au/Medicare/bulkbillstoreforward/pathology/v1 \
     -H "x-api-key: <apiKey>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
  "claim": {
    "serviceTypeCode": "P",
    "serviceProvider": {
      "providerNumber": "2447781L"
    },
    "medicalEvent": [
      {
        "id": "01",
        "authorisationDate": "2025-09-16",
        "createDateTime": "2025-09-17T08:30:00+10:00",
        "medicalEventDate": "2025-09-16",
        "submissionAuthorityInd": "Y",
        "patient": {
          "identity": {
            "givenName": "Edmond",
            "familyName": "FLETCHER",
            "dateOfBirth": "1986-12-18"
          },
          "medicare": {
            "memberNumber": "4951525561",
            "memberRefNumber": "2"
          }
        },
        "service": [
          {
            "id": "0001",
            "itemNumber": "65120",
            "chargeAmount": "15075",
            "collectionDateTime": "2025-09-16T07:00:00+10:00",
            "accessionDateTime": "2025-09-16T07:00:00+10:00",
            "scpId": "00001",
            "rule3ExemptInd": "Y"
          }
        ],
        "medicalEventTime": "07:00:00+10:00",
        "referral": {
          "issueDate": "2025-08-01",
          "typeCode": "P",
          "provider": {
            "providerNumber": "2447791K"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}'

{
  "claimId": "F3850@",
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "correlationId": "urn:uuid:MDE00000d4e8f5f47c4e67ad"
}

Pathology services claim

Submit a bulk bill claim for pathology services. Use serviceTypeCode: P. A claim may contain up to 80 medical events, each with up to 14 services.

Each medical event must satisfy one of the following referral conditions or an error will be returned:

A pathology referral is set with referral.typeCode: P
referralOverrideCode is set to N (not required)
selfDeemedCode is set to SD on at least one service (SS is not permitted for pathology)

medicalEventDate must not be more than 1 year before submission.

## Pathology services claim Submit a bulk bill claim for pathology services. Use `serviceTypeCode: P`. A claim may contain up to 80 medical events, each with up to 14 services. Each medical event must satisfy one of the following referral conditions or an error will be returned: - A pathology referral is set with `referral.typeCode: P` - `referralOverrideCode` is set to `N` (not required) - `selfDeemedCode` is set to `SD` on at least one service (SS is not permitted for pathology) `medicalEventDate` must not be more than 1 year before submission.

Authentication

x-api-keystring

API Key authentication via header

x-minor-idstring

API Key authentication via header

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

claimobjectRequired

correlationIdstringOptional

Optional. Supply a unique transaction ID in the format urn:uuid:{MinorId}{16 hex chars} (33 characters total, e.g. urn:uuid:MDE00000a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8). If the same correlationId is submitted twice, the second request is rejected with error 9777. If omitted, RebateRight generates one automatically.

Response

claimIdstring

Claim identifier assigned by Medicare. Format is a letter prefix, 4 digits, and a @ suffix (e.g. F3850@).

statusstring

Always SUCCESS on a successful submission.

correlationIdstring

Unique identifier for the request, for support tracing.

Errors

400

Bad Request Error