WAGMSS is the Western Australian Government Medical Services Schedule.
It's used in WA for Contracted Medical Practitioners working in government hospitals engaged under a Fee for Service Medical Services Agreement.
Cutting Edge comes pre-loaded with the WAGMSS items and schedule of fees.
Follow the steps below to get set up.
- The first thing you need to do is to create an entry in the Funds
table for the entity (usually a hospital department) that will pay you
for these services. See this article for advice on creating a new fund: https://support.cesoft.com.au/portal/en/kb/articles/manually-adding-health-funds
- You may also need to create a new entry in the Facility table
(Databases > Facilities) to show where the work was done. if you
don't already have one see this link for advice. https://support.cesoft.com.au/portal/en/kb/articles/adding-hospitals-or-facilities
Once that's done, go to the Invoices screen and create your
invoice, using the fund code created in step 1 above. You should see
WAGMSS come up in the Fee Calc box. If you know the correct items, go
ahead and enter them
- Cutting Edge has some built in assistance for WAGMSS items. If you
enter an MBS item but WAGMSS requires a different item for that service,
you will be prompted with the correct item. For Anaesthetics, on a
WAGMSS invoice there will be a Show WAGMSS button in place of the Show
RVG button. This brings up a menu of items organised alone the headings
of the RVG, to assist you in finding the correct item. When you select
an item from this list it will be automatically entered for you.
- SPECIAL NOTE: For emergency after hours anaesthetics, use item EAHA. This is more or less equivalent to the 25025 on MBS invoices, however in WAGMSS the loading gets applied to the individual items, so the EAHA item has a value of $0.
NOTE: WAGMSS invoices can't be sent electronically. You have to print and post them.
Likewise, payments will have to be processed manually when received