Bulk Bill Claim
Lodge claims where the patient assigns their Medicare benefits to the provider
A Bulk Bill claim is submitted when a patient assigns their right to Medicare benefits to the health professional who provided the service. Services Australia assesses the claim and pays the benefit directly to the provider via EFT.
RebateRight supports three Bulk Bill service types:
Standard GP and general practitioner consultations.
Specialist, Allied Health, and Diagnostic Imaging services.
Pathology services subject to a pathology request.
All vouchers in a single claim must use the same serviceTypeCode. You cannot mix General, Specialist, and Pathology services in one claim.
Each Bulk Bill claim contains:
serviceTypeCode across all vouchersEach voucher contains:
Specialists may submit claims with a mixture of services requiring both referral and request information in the same voucher. To do this, include referral details at the voucher level alongside the relevant service-level request details.
This only applies to specialist services combining Referrals and Diagnostic Imaging Requests in the same voucher. Pathology Requests must be submitted separately.
Services Australia no longer issues cheques for Bulk Bill payments. Health professionals must register their bank details with Services Australia to receive payments via EFT.
If a health professional practises at more than one location, bank details must be registered for each location separately.
To register EFT details, refer health professionals to: Claim Bulk Bill Payments — Services Australia
If a claim is rejected, you can resubmit it after correcting the errors. Key rules:
correlationId to resubmit a corrected version of the same claimcorrelationId if you are submitting a different claim