Quoting Oliver Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Medicare Australia (I'm forcing myself to get used to the HIC's shiny > new name) has been coming at it for probably a couple of years, by > accepting Medicare claims from patients who have seen specialists, where > the item numbers claimed are at the referred rate, even though the > referral was emailed without an individual digital signature. HIC (I can't get used to it) have stated on the record that they *will* accept a scanned image of the referral letter as proof that the referral took place, they do not insist the paper original be kept.
They don't say the scanning has the take place in the specialist's surgery... Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
