NSW SIRA/Workcover have a new fee schedule from 1st Dec.

BUPA have implemented a national fee schedule from 1st December and allow the specialist to participate in either a Known-Gap or No-Gap Scheme.  https://www.bupa.com.au/for-providers/bupa-medical-gap-scheme-whats-changing. This means the existing fee schedules cannot be used for new services or treatment and you will need to add BUPA-KnownGap or BUPA-NoGap as new Health Fund policies.

Instructions on how to add a new Health Fund

Obstetric practices are receiving notification from the Ministry of Health that agreement numbers, where previously issued to a company or group practice will no longer be valid for claiming from 29 November 2021.

If you have been issued with individual agreement numbers, these can be added via Setup - Provider - Config 3 - Edit.

Please note that you should not need to change the Health Funding Contract Number, nor Health Benefits Payee Number unless you have been notified that these have

AHSA no longer acts as agent for Railway & Transport Health Fund Ltd (rt health) and Transport Health Pty Ltd (Transport Health) following their acquisition by The Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia Limited (HCF). 

Therefore, effective 15 November 2021 each of rt health and Transport Health no longer participate in AGC.  However, all of AHSA's other participating funds will continue to do so.

An updated AHSA Participating Fund Contact List can be viewed on the AHSA website. For this

This article is only relevant if you send txt or email links to the online patient registration or COVID questionnaire and the link includes the URL of 'go.incloud.clinic'.

Some patients are getting a warning message displayed on their phone when they try to open the online COVID screening questionnaire or the online patient registration form if it is using the shortened 'go.incloud.clinic' web address. 

This is because some of the newer versions of web browsers are now displaying a

Medicare have provided an updated schedule of benefits for November.  Only the Health Funds that use Access Gap Cover (AHSA) or Medical Gap (BUPA) have updated their fee schedules.   These are included in the latest Rates.Aus file which is now available to download and import into SPM.

A list of the Health Funds that are available to use in the Incisive application, with the date of their latest fee schedule, is available from this link. The changes to the Medicare schedule is provided

A new Knowledgebase article is available with a short (59sec) video showing you how you can send a SMS txt to the patient, with a link to an online COVID screening questionnaire for the patient to complete on their phone, then their answers are imported and viewed in the patient's Notes

How To: Online COVID screening questionnaire

New C19 Alert symbol

To make it easier for you to be aware of the COVID-19 vaccination status of the patient, we have recently added a new Red, Amber or