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title: Bulk Bill Claim
subtitle: Lodge claims where the patient assigns their Medicare benefits to the provider
slug: bulk-bill-claim
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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.
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## Claim Types
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.
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## Claim Structure
Each Bulk Bill claim contains:
* One **servicing provider** and one **payee provider** (where applicable — they cannot be the same)
* Up to **80 Medical Events (Vouchers)**
* A consistent `serviceTypeCode` across all vouchers
Each **voucher** contains:
* One **patient**
* A **date of service**
* Up to **14 services** (MBS items)
* **Referral details** (where applicable)
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## Mixed Referral and Request Services
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.
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## Validations
| Rule | Limit |
| -------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Medical Events per claim | Maximum **80** |
| Services per Medical Event | Maximum **14** |
| Medical Event IDs | Must start at `01` and increment by one |
| Service IDs | Must be unique within the claim |
| Date of Service | Must not be more than **2 years** in the past |
| Daily claim volume | More than **2,500 BBSW claims** from the same Payee Provider and Location ID per day will be rejected |
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## EFT Payment Details
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](https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/claim-medicare-bulk-bill-payments)
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## Resubmitting Rejected Claims
If a claim is rejected, you can resubmit it after correcting the errors. Key rules:
* Use the **same `correlationId`** to resubmit a corrected version of the same claim
* Use a **new `correlationId`** if you are submitting a different claim
* Review the error messages in the response — they must be displayed to the end user exactly as returned, without modification
It is a requirement by Services Australia that error messages are displayed to the end user exactly as supplied in the response — not truncated, transformed, or changed in any way.