Fees and Billing
Fees and Billing
Consultations and Fees
Medifirst Noosa is a private billing practice. We ask that fees be paid in full at the time of the visit. Payment can be made by cash, eftpos, credit or debit cards. We accept VISA and Mastercard but do not have facility for American Express. Personal cheques are not accepted as payment at the practice.
The practice offers a Medicare service called Patient Online Claiming whereby the rebate from Medicare can be paid into a bank account within 2 days or a rebate cheque may be sent to the home address within 2 weeks. For the money to be deposited in an account our staff will need a bank account number and the BSB of the bank to send to Medicare. Alternatively, the patient can advise Medicare of banking and BSB details in advance. This system saves our patients from travelling to a Medicare office to claim or from doing the transaction by post.
Staff will advise of fees when you make your appointment.
Procedural services attract fees in addition to the fee for the consultation. These are claimable from Medicare and are often billed at the rebate only level.
A rebate from Medicare can be claimed for medical fees. The fees do not attract GST. Some fees for services not deemed to be medical services do attract GST and no rebate is payable from Medicare. They include for example: insurance medical reports; medico-legal reports; employment medicals; dive medicals; and, commercial drivers licence medicals.
Appointments that are purely for skin screening clinic attendances are bulk-billed.
All new patients attending the practice will be privately billed for the first consultation. An exception exists for those attending for skin screening clinic appointment only.
Valid concession card holders and children under 16 years of age are mostly bulk-billed under the Medicare Plus arrangements. Some doctors may require card holders to pay private fees.
DVA cards are accepted and veterans and war widows will generally be bulk-billed to Veterans Affairs after their first privately billed visit to this practice.
Patients on holidays are generally privately billed.
Some prescriptions and reports are possible without seeing the doctor –all these services attract cash fees. The applicable fees are $20 for prescriptions and $50 or more for referrals or reports without a consultation depending on time taken and complexity. There is no Medicare rebate for non-consultation items of service.
