HICAPS
HICAPS represents Health Industry Claims and also Payments Service.
HICAPS is a digital health and wellness insurance claims system that permits HIF participants to assert immediately instantly at their wellness solution carrier.
Exactly how does HICAPS function?
When at an appointment with an Extras provider (e.g. Sunbury Denture Clinic), our assistant will certainly offer you information on costs as well as ask if you have health and wellness cover. Then you could hand them your HIF subscription card and they’ll swipe it via a electronic claiming terminal called a HICAPS machine.
The device will instantly work out and deduct HIF’s payment in the relation of your costs, then you simply have to pay any balance (if any). In circumstances where a section of the costs might be more and also for that reason have to be paid by you, this is described as a “gap payment”.
HICAPS has actually made claims and refunds simpler compared to ever. If you have to lodge a claim on your personal medical insurance or on Medicare, it could be irritating to need to go via the procedure of online claim; and even worse, needing to go right into a Medicare branch to lodge your claim. It’s good that lots of, if not most, dental solution suppliers currently supply HICAPS, a solution that makes declaring your health fund discount considerably less complicated.
HICAPS is readily available to participants of most private health funds in Australia, and also covers solutions from a wide selection of health and dental companies such as Sunbury Denture Clinic.
At your visit all you do is turn over your private health fund card or Medicare card at the time of repayment, and also your claim could be paid immediately. When the claim has actually been calculated, you pay the difference in between the price of the procedure and rebate. Simple and convenient!
If you have any type of concerns or require additional details pertaining to HICAPS or to schedule a visit, get in touch with Sunbury Denture Clinic in Sunbury today on (03) 9744 6582.