Recent Medicare Changes Regarding Electronic Referrals

Attached Files
Briefing For Divisions - Recent Medicare Changes Regarding Electronic Referrals 2009.12.15.pdf

Health providers that previously benefited mainly from receiving electronic documents via Argus can now benefit from savings by also sending electronic referrals via Argus. At the same time those that were largely benefiting from savings in sending electronic reports will be able to also benefit from receiving electronic referrals.

As a result of a recent Medicare Australia review, individual digital signing is are no longer required for provider-to-provider electronic referrals and requests

There is now no Medicare impediment to practices with Argus clinical messaging using the existing referral-writing capability of their patient clinical software (or using ArgusWord if they do not have patient clinical software) to send electronic referrals via the current Argus versions 4.3.3 (Windows 2000, XP) and 4.3.4 (Windows Vista & Windows 7).

See attached PDF for further details.