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All Health Fund & Agency fee schedules updated
Posted by Sinclair Hughes on 24 July 2020 03:53 PM

All of the Government agencies and Health Funds participating with ECLIPSE have updated their fee schedules for use from the 1st July 2020. 

A list of the Health Funds with the date of their latest fee schedule that is available to import into SPM, is available from this Knowledgebase page.

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-200701

To import and update the Medicare &


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The AHSA Access Gap Cover (AGC) maximum co-payment changes from 1 July 2020.

From this date, each provider will be able to charge the patient a gap of up to $500 per episode.

Please refer to the AHSA website for their Terms and Conditions and their Billing Guide.

Please note that if you choose to use AGC you must not charge any non-clinical fees to your patient such as ‘Booking Fees’, ‘Administration Fees’ etc.  This includes any hidden fees not being a professional service described by an


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Update of Medicare items for COVID-19 as at 20th April
Posted by Sinclair Hughes on 21 April 2020 02:23 PM

The latest Medicare Items that were made available on the 20th April are now available for invoicing.

For information about the changes go to http://www.mbsonline.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.nsf/Content/news

Use the usual steps in SPM to download and update your fees from Utilities > Import > Health


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Medicare and Health Fund schedule update - March 2020
Posted by Sinclair Hughes on 17 March 2020 10:25 AM

Medicare, DVA and many of the Health Funds participating with ECLIPSE have updated their fee schedules for use from the 1st March 2020.  

Included are the new item numbers for Telehealth and Telephone consultations.  

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-2020-03-01-latest-news-March


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Modifying and sending SMS Messages (in response to COVID-19)
Posted by Jane Hughes on 16 March 2020 03:49 PM

We have had a number of queries from clients wanting to change the text of their SMS Messages due to COVID-19, or to be able to send additional messages.  In response to this we have prepared the following:

Automated Appointment Reminder Messages

The text for the automated appointment reminder messages are linked to the Appointment Session.  To modify these:

  1. Setup – Appointments – Session Types.
  2. Highlight the relevant session type and select Edit (the sessions with SMS Messages

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