Medicare and most of the Health Funds have updated their schedules since 1 November 2024.

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 list of Medicare items that have been added or modified is available from this link.

Importing the latest Medicare and Health Fund fee schedules is performed in Utilities > Import > Health Fund rates. Instructions for the import process are

Version 414.6 is now available for both the 'Specialist Practice Manager' (SPM) and 'Private Hospital Manager' (PHM) applications.

It includes new features and improvements for both 414.4 and 414.6.  Version 414.4 has the more substantive number of improvements and was released last week. Version 414.6 was released yesterday and only includes the new signature-exempt authorisation for emailed prescriptions.

Log into the Knowledgebase to access the relevant release notes for both 414.4 and 414.6

Just a reminder, that on 1 October 2023, HBF’s provider agreements changed.

The HBF published fee schedule from this date, now only applies to WA.  All other states are to use the Access Gap Cover Schedule from AHSA for their state.

For all states other than WA, please ensure that you have configured HBF to use the AHSA Access Gap Cover schedule.

1. Check the entry for the fund via Setup – Contacts – Health Funds.
2. Edit the entry for HBF.
3. Select Policy Names.
4. Check that this is linked to an

Elective Surgery Services variation goes live on 1 July 2024. ACC have not informed us of the specific increase, however our calculations indicate the prices have increased by 6.3%.  You should confirm this rate before making changes using the percentage update option.

Unless you hold an Elective Surgery Contract, changes to the pricing for surgical procedures will be notified to you via your contract holder(s).

Hospital clients using PHM will receive a separate

ACC Digital Operations have advised the following:

"We are aware that there is currently an issue with the Create Invoice function only on eBusiness Gateway and this is preventing users from submitting invoices.

All other functions on eBusiness Gateway such as claim, invoice and remittance query is not affected.

We are looking into the cause and will advise as soon as this is resolved.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."

Most of of clients no longer submit claims via the

The issue being experienced yesterday with trying to connect to the Medicare servers via Claiming.com to verify patients appears to have been resolved.  We have not yet received notification from Claiming.com, but tests conducted by ourselves early this morning indicate that the problem has been resolved.

Please notify us via help@incisivesupport.com if this is not the case.