Bulk Bill Claim — Specialist | RebateRight

curl -X POST https://api.rebateright.com.au/Medicare/bulkbillstoreforward/specialist/v1 \
     -H "x-api-key: <apiKey>" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
  "claim": {
    "serviceTypeCode": "S",
    "serviceProvider": {
      "providerNumber": "2447791K"
    },
    "medicalEvent": [
      {
        "id": "01",
        "authorisationDate": "2025-09-16",
        "createDateTime": "2025-09-16T08:30:00+10:00",
        "medicalEventDate": "2025-09-16",
        "medicalEventTime": "08:30:00+10:00",
        "submissionAuthorityInd": "Y",
        "referral": {
          "issueDate": "2025-08-01",
          "typeCode": "S",
          "periodCode": "S",
          "provider": {
            "providerNumber": "2054781W"
          }
        },
        "patient": {
          "identity": {
            "givenName": "Edmond",
            "familyName": "FLETCHER",
            "dateOfBirth": "1986-12-18"
          },
          "medicare": {
            "memberNumber": "4951525561",
            "memberRefNumber": "2"
          }
        },
        "service": [
          {
            "id": "0001",
            "itemNumber": "104",
            "chargeAmount": "15075",
            "text": "Specialist Consultation"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}'

{
  "claimId": "F3849@",
  "status": "SUCCESS",
  "correlationId": "urn:uuid:MDE000008f325e52ba274117"
}

Specialist services claim

Submit a bulk bill claim for specialist, allied health, or diagnostic imaging services. Use serviceTypeCode: S. A claim may contain up to 80 medical events, each with up to 14 services. Specialists may mix referral and diagnostic imaging request services in the same medical event; pathology requests must be submitted separately.

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

A referral is set with referral.typeCode of S (specialist/allied health) or D (diagnostic imaging)
referralOverrideCode is set to H (hospital), L (lost), E (emergency), or N (not required)
selfDeemedCode is set to SD or SS on at least one service

medicalEventDate must not be more than 1 year before submission.

## Specialist services claim Submit a bulk bill claim for specialist, allied health, or diagnostic imaging services. Use `serviceTypeCode: S`. A claim may contain up to 80 medical events, each with up to 14 services. Specialists may mix referral and diagnostic imaging request services in the same medical event; pathology requests must be submitted separately. Each medical event must satisfy one of the following referral conditions or an error will be returned: - A referral is set with `referral.typeCode` of `S` (specialist/allied health) or `D` (diagnostic imaging) - `referralOverrideCode` is set to `H` (hospital), `L` (lost), `E` (emergency), or `N` (not required) - `selfDeemedCode` is set to `SD` or `SS` on at least one service `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. F3849@).

statusstring

Always SUCCESS on a successful submission.

correlationIdstring

Unique identifier for the request, for support tracing.

Errors

400

Bad Request Error