You said: Get it right
We will: Make accurate and timely payments
Measure
Payments are timely and accurate.
Performance
During July 2008 to September 2008:
- 91.4 per cent of Medicare bulk bill claims were finalised within 15 days
- 97.0 per cent of Medicare simplified billing claims were finalised within 10 days
- 97.4 per cent of all Medicare patient claims were finalised within 18 days
- Accuracy of payments for Medicare was 98.1 per cent against a target of 97.9 per cent
- Accuracy of payments for PBS was 98.2 per cent against a target of 98 per cent
- continuous random sampling and compliance audits of Medicare and PBS payments provide assurance of accuracy of payments and areas for improvement.
- 74.7 per cent of PBS claims were finalised within 17 days
Last updated: 12 November, 2008