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RebateRight APIMedicare ClaimingInteractive Patient Claims

Same Day Delete

Can I withdraw a patient claim I sent today?

Yes, through this endpoint, when Medicare has assessed the claim and it is still the Sydney day Medicare received it.

Same Day Delete lets a practice withdraw an interactive patient claim on the day Medicare received it. Medicare deletes a claim only when its status is MEDICARE_ASSESSED, so a pended claim stays lodged.

The cut-off. The day is the Sydney day on which Services Australia received the claim, from 00:00 to 23:59 Sydney time (AEST, or AEDT during daylight saving). The clinic’s local time and date do not change it. Sydney is on AEDT from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April. The last local time to delete a claim is:

Where the clinic isWhile Sydney is on AESTWhile Sydney is on AEDT
NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania11:59 pm AEST11:59 pm AEDT
Queensland11:59 pm AEST10:59 pm AEST
South Australia11:29 pm ACST11:29 pm ACDT
Broken Hill (NSW)11:29 pm ACST11:29 pm ACDT
Northern Territory11:29 pm ACST10:29 pm ACST
Western Australia9:59 pm AWST8:59 pm AWST
Lord Howe Island (NSW)12:29 am the next local day11:59 pm

A claim received after midnight Sydney time belongs to the next Sydney day, even where the local date has not changed. A claim sent from Perth at 10:30 pm local time while Sydney is on AEDT can be deleted until 8:59 pm the next local day.

Matching the original claim. Send the original claim’s correlationId in the body, and the same x-minor-id you sent with the claim. Medicare finds the claim by its correlationId, and rejects a delete sent from a different Minor ID. RebateRight sets Medicare’s own headers for you. If RebateRight generated the claim’s correlationId, take it from the claim response. Correlation ID has the rules for reusing it.

Registration. RebateRight is certified by Services Australia, so you and your clinics need no certification of your own.

Messages from Medicare. Show serviceMessage[].reason to your users exactly as returned, with the wording unchanged.

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

Body for a same-day delete. correlationId identifies the original claim. sameDayDelete carries the patient’s details as sent on that claim, and the reason for the delete.

correlationIdstringRequired

The original claim’s correlationId: the one you sent with the claim, or the one the claim response returned. If Medicare has no claim with this value, it returns 9775.

sameDayDeleteobjectRequired

The patient’s name and Medicare card details as sent on the original claim, and the reason for the delete.

Response

Medicare accepted the delete and removed the claim. status is SUCCESS.

statusenum

Outcome when Medicare accepts the same-day delete.

ValueMeaning
SUCCESSSame-day delete processed; the claim is removed at Medicare.
Allowed values:
correlationIdstring

The correlationId you sent, which is the original claim’s. RebateRight adds it to every JSON response.

Errors

400
Bad Request Error