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RebateRight APIMedicare ClaimingIN Patient Claims

In-Patient Claim Declaration (PDF)

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What does the patient consent to before I lodge a Patient Claim?

The patient agrees to the Patient Claim consent and declaration. This endpoint produces it as a PDF, in the wording Services Australia publishes, with the patient’s and claimant’s details filled in.

Test environment only. Services Australia is certifying this service, and it reaches production once certified.

Before you lodge an in-patient Patient Claim (PC), present this declaration to the patient, on screen or printed, and get their verbal consent. Patient Claims sets out the rule.

You sendYou getThen
The patient and claimant from the Patient Claim you will lodgeThe IMCW Patient Claim Consent and Declaration as a PDFShow or print it for the patient, get their verbal consent, then lodge the claim at the Patient Claim endpoint for its specialty

What the PDF carries

The PDF carries the header Services Australia sets, the Location ID, the accountReferenceId, the patient’s and claimant’s details, the declaration and the privacy notice. The declaration and the privacy notice follow Services Australia’s current version word for word. The last line records the date and time RebateRight made the PDF.

Request body

The request takes the same claim as the Patient Claim, so you can send the Patient Claim request unchanged. This endpoint reads the fields below and ignores the rest. It sends nothing to Medicare.

Only claim.patient.identity.familyName and claim.claimant.identity.familyName are required. An optional field you leave out prints as a blank.

Location on the PDF

The PDF prints the x-minor-id request header as its Location ID.

Response

StatusContent typeMeaning
200application/pdfThe declaration, offered as the download InPatientClaimDeclaration.pdf.
400text/plainThe JSON is invalid, a field has the wrong type, or a required field or the x-minor-id header is missing. The body names the problem.

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

Response

The IMCW Patient Claim Consent and Declaration as a PDF, named InPatientClaimDeclaration.pdf.