bulk bill

bulk bill

To charge the costs of a patient's care by a general practitioner, hospital, or other health service provider to Medicare, the Australian government's universal health insurance system. Primarily heard in Australia. Recent legislation is aimed at introducing a mandatory co-pay for all services bulk billed by GPs and hospitals.
See also: bill, bulk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bulk
  • bulk billing
  • plead
  • plead down to (something)
  • pleading
  • pled
  • TIIC
  • the whip hand
  • O-sign
  • the O-sign
References in periodicals archive
The market will be driven by reversal to cuts in Bulk Bill incentives, implementation of national screening programs and rising trend of outsourcing by public hospitals to private service providers.
Australia Clinical (Diagnostic and Pathology) Services Market Outlook to 2023
In 2017, Commercial Bank became the first bank in Qatar to offer direct debit to any utility company (Qatar Cool) for online bill payments, and the first bank in Qatar to offer a bulk bill payment service to Ooredoo.
Double win for Commercial Bank at The Asian Banker
In 2017, the bank became the first bank in the country to offer "direct debit" to any utility company (Qatar Cool) for online bill payments, and the first bank in Qatar to offer a bulk bill payment service to Ooredoo.
Commercial Bank scores double win at Asian Banker's awards
The bulk bill lacks any data intelligence as to the itemized cost of the relationship.
Where's the money?
Alternatively, the doctor could chose to bulk bill the patient, in which case the patient would pay nothing and the doctor would bill the government directly for the 85 percent rebate.
Markets, universalism and equity: medicare's dual role in the Australian welfare state
Medicare Plus promised to rectify these problems by recruiting more doctors and, at the same time, giving them additional financial inducements to bulk bill families with young children and residents of regional areas.
Medicare plus and overseas-trained medical doctors
Many rail against long waiting lines for "elective" surgery in public hospitals, understaffed and underfunded public hospitals, and a lack of doctors who "bulk bill"--that is, bill Medicare directly for services, requiring no out-of-pocket fees from patients.
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TCP encourages the involvement of local GPs, most of whom bulk bill pensioners.
Hockey makes history of health
Incentive payments introduced for GPs who bulk bill; co-payments for GP visits increased.
Medical madness and liberal resistance: the road to Medicare was long and rocky due to relentless resistance by the medical profession and the Liberal Party
The average amount paid by those people not bulk billed was $28.58 per visit.
Cutting health costs: lowering out-of-pocket expenses by changing processes
There is also evidence that low income might also reduce access to specialist medical practitioner services which, while funded through Medicare, are less likely to be bulk billed than general practitioner services, and which therefore attract higher out-of pocket costs.
ANCILLARY AND SPECIALIST HEALTH SERVICES: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME, USER RATES AND EQUITY OF ACCESS