NIB Clinical Partner Agreements

NIB Clinical Partner Agreements

Administered by Honeysuckle Health, the NIB Clinical Partners program allows participating orthopaedic surgeons and anaesthetists to charge a loading for hip and knee joint replacements without the patient incurring an out of pocket expense.
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The loading applies when the surgical items are 
Hips - 49318, 49319, 49321
Knees - 49518, 49519, 49521

Invoices should be prepared at the usual MediGap rate, then an additional item should be added 

"ANAES - Single joint anaesthetics payment"
or
"BILAT - Bilateral joint anaesthetics payment"

You may want to add these descriptions and fees as user items for easy reference, under Databases > User Items
See https://support.cesoft.com.au/portal/en/kb/articles/how-to-create-custom-items-27-6-2022

As the rates may vary from time to time and from provider to provider, you will need to update your user items manually.

At present it's not possible to send Clinical Partner Agreement accounts via ECLIPSE. 
Instead you should send the invoice to clinical.partners@honeysucklehealth.com.au

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