Leaving this here in case I forget later/don’t catch you.

Practitioners don’t instantly process claims for Medicare for kids under 14 because children don’t have their own bank details before that age (apparently). Some practitioners will process it for the parent/guardian onsite though.

Seems a really stupid and inefficient system. The parent/guardian is the one paying for the procedure, the claim should be able to go straight back into their account. I’m surprised she didn’t ask for proof the child was mine :p (Little Miss has Mr Mutant’s surname; I couldn’t find anything that went well with my surname and it has nothing to do with a patriarchal society, as one ‘friend’ put it)

LOL at the fake tradie liberal ad.

:-)

ChrispenEvan said:

LOL at the fake tradie liberal ad.

:-)

let’s just stick with current mob

Thanks DA. We just put it back to the (usually parent’s) account it came out of. The children are dependents and the parents responsible for their bills. So the rebate goes to the parent. The child at that age can’t actually authorize Medicare to pay back to them as far as I know. And the child is on the family Medicare card so the money goes back to the family. I guess the child could ask for their own Medicare card, but I doubt the system would allow that. They’d just be issued with a copy card of the family one.