ACC Elective Surgery price update

If you have an Elective Surgery contract with ACC the new schedule of prices is now available to be used for your invoicing from 1st July. There is a 3.86  % increase except for HIT50A, 60A and 70A which have been repriced. KNE27 has been removed. 

There are three options you can use to update your fees:
     1. use an Incisive application to import the 2021 fees to a new category.  
     2. update the existing fees by the percentage increase (3.86% for

Further Health Fund fee schedules have been made available for us to provide to you. 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.

These are BUPA, CBD Benefits Fund (Cessnock) and Medibank Private.  Please note that NIB have provided their fee schedule on a provisional basis which is expected to change.  They have asked that you do not submit claims to NIB until you are

Medicare, TAC, WorkSafe (Vic) and AHSA (Gap Cover) are the only government agencies and insurers who have provided their updated fee schedules. 

A list of the Health Funds with the date of their latest fee schedule is available from this link.

Click on the following link to view the full list of item changes from Medicare:
http://www.mbsonline.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.nsf/Content/news-210701

It will be imperative that you complete all of your online claims for service up to

As you will no doubt be aware there have been a number of changes to the MBS effective from 1 July 2021.

For a full list of the changes, please refer to MBS Online:

http://www.mbsonline.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.nsf/Content/news-210701

Because of the large number of superseded or deleted item numbers, and because of the delay in the Health Funds making available their Gap Cover Schedules, we will not be making the RATES.AUS file available to download and import until 6.00 a.m.

Incisive have recently received advice from the New Zealand Ministry of Health that the waiver for non-NZePS signature exempt prescriptions has been extended through to September 20th 2021.  The Ministry advise that they will publish this information on their website shortly.  You can contact their helpdesk at onlinehelpdesk@health.govt.nz 

This means that you are permitted to email prescriptions to pharmacies if the criteria specified by the Ministry of Health is met. 

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