Patients Eligible for MyMedicare Registration

Identify patients who may be eligible for the MyMedicare scheme.

Patients are included if they meet the following criteria:
  • Medicare or DVA card recorded in Pracsoft or MedicalDirector Clinical.
  • Have had at least two face to face visits to your practice in the past 24 months and one telehealth appointment.
  • Do not have MyMedicare Registration Status set in Pracsoft.
Note:
This metric cannot determine whether a patient is registered at another practice.

This metric does not guarantee a patient has met the servicing requirements of the General Practice in Aged Care Incentive.

Table 1. Data Sources
Field Data source field Source field location & other notes
Medicare or DVA number Patient record:
  • Medicare No
  • DVA file No
 Edit Patient Details window. For more information, see Editing Patient Records.

If Pracsoft is integrated with Clinical, in the Patient Details window in Clinical.
Patient name, age and contact number

 Patient record:
  • First Name
  • Middle Name
  • Surname
  • Date of Birth
  • Phone
Face to face visits and Telehealth consults in the last 24 months
Example face to face and telehealth consults in Smart Visual dashboard
 Calculated from the number of times a patient has been billed for the listed MBS Billing items in the previous 24 months from the date of data refresh. For an indicative list of MBS Billing items used to determine eligibility of patients for MyMedicare registration, see Face to Face and Telehealth MBS Billing items used to determine eligibility of patients for MyMedicare registration. *1
Chronic disease diagnosis
If Pracsoft is integrated with Clinical, displays Y (yes) when a Chronic Disease diagnosis is recorded in the Reason for contact coded list in MedicalDirector Clinical.
Example Reason for Contact in Progress Notes in Clinical

For more information, see Reason for Contact in the MedicalDirector Clinical Knowledge Centre.

The Chronic Diseases included in this metric are the top 10 Chronic Diseases identified by Chronic disease Overview - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (aihw.gov.au).

Care Plan billed in the last 12 months
Example Care plan in Smart Visual dashboard
 Displays Y (yes) when a CarePlan or CDM MBS Billing item has been billed to the patient in the last 12 months. For an indicative list of MBS Billing items used to determine eligibility of patients for MyMedicare registration, see CDM and CarePlan MBS Billing items used to determine eligibility of patients for MyMedicare registration.*
RACF Status Displays Y (yes) when the patient has been billed for at least one of the following MBS Billing codes in the previous 24 months. For an indicative list of RACF (Residential Aged Care Status) MBS Billing items used to determine eligibility of patients for MyMedicare registration, see Residential Aged Care Status MBS Billing items used to determine eligibility of patients for MyMedicare registration.
Note:
This metric cannot determine if the patient is a respite patient does not guarantee a patient's eligibility for the General Practice in Aged Care Incentive. *
To run the visualisation:
  1. Select Reports > Smart Visual Dashboards.
  2. Log into Telstra Health Smart Visual Dashboards in your browser.
  3. Select Appointments > Patients Eligible for MyMedicare Registration.
  4. To set filters to include or exclude the following, select MD Smart Report Configuration button MD Smart Report Configuration:
    • Practitioners
    • Upcoming appointments
    • If a patient has had a care plan billed
  5. Click Apply.

The Patients eligible for MyMedicare Registration report is generated.


Example Patients eligible for MyMedicare Registration

To order the list according to your practice's priorities, for the column you want to sort on, click the arrow in the column header.

1 Data is calculated using MBS items billed against patient files. For a full list of the MBS items used, contact ecosystem.solutions@medicaldirector.com.