Releasing Immunisation Claims
One or more immunisation claims can be 'released' from a batch before the batch is processed and transferred to Medicare. You may want to do this if for example you want batch your day's ACIR claims together in one batch, instead of sending them amongst batches of 'normal' claims.
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Select . The Medicare Australia Online Claiming window appears. The example below shows three claims ready for processing, one of which is an ACIR claim. It is this claim we will remove from the list.
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Select . The Claim History window appears.
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Locate and right-click the claim you want to release from the set. From the menu that appears, click Release Claim. You will be prompted to confirm this action. Note that a single claim may contain multiple encounters. To view which encounters are contained in a claim, right-click it and select Modify Claim.
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The selected claim is removed from the set. Close the Claim History window. You are returned to the Medicare Australia Online Claiming window. At this point the ACIR claim is removed. You can continue to process other claims as desired. If you want to process other non- ACIR claims during the day, ensure that when you select and are prompted to import immunisations claims, you select
Later, when you are ready to batch your ACIR claims together, select Yes to this prompt - a ny ACIR claims you released previously will be now added to any new claims you have, combined into a single batch.