Fee Schedule Status

Do you want to be kept up-to-date on when we receive new fee schedules that are to be made available to you, a Genie user, to use for your billing? If so, you’re in the right place!  

From time to time, Medicare will release updates to the Medicare Benefits Schedule. Likewise, other organisations such as private health funds and WorkCover also release fee schedule updates, sometimes multiple times throughout the year. This page is intended to advise you when new fee schedules have been received by us, even if they haven’t made it into Genie itself yet. 

Bookmark and regularly check this page for fee schedule status updates.  

Did you know?

When new fee schedules are released by Medicare, health funds, and WorkCover, they are not always provided to Genie. As a result, our team needs to track these schedules down so that they can then be processed into an appropriate format for download through your Genie application. This process can be quite in-depth and occasionally time-consuming, but you can rest assured - we're always doing our best to try and have these schedules available to you as soon as possible. These schedules can then be downloaded via your Software Updates menu in Genie. 

We also understand that Medicare frequently release new item numbers for a variety of specialties. To check what Medicare Schedule contains the new item numbers that may be applicable to your practice, see the Medicare - Latest News page! 

Fee Schedule Statuses

Different Status Meanings 

Available in Genie: If a schedule’s status shows ‘Available in Genie’, we believe we have the most up-to-date fees for the corresponding schedule, and these are already in Genie available for download.  

Being Processed: If the status shows ‘Being Processed’, the fund/organisation has recently released a new fee schedule. While this new schedule is not yet available in Genie, we have obtained the updated schedule and are going through the motions of processing the file into a format readable by Genie, ready for testing that will result in the file being uploaded, available for you!  

Issues Found: In rare cases, issues may be found during our processing and testing of a schedule. These issues may be a corrupt file, a result of the processing done to the schedule prior to this reaching us, or it may be as a result of the processing after reaching us. In any case, if a schedule reaches this status, we will endeavour to resolve the issues if in our power, or we will work with the fund/organisation to obtain a file that we can work with if the issue within the schedule was present prior to reaching us.  

Note: Not all the above-listed fee schedules will be available to you within Genie’s Software Updates, as some schedules are state-specific (such as HBF, WorkSafe).  

*ADF Health Services (formally known as Garrison Health by Medibank Health Solutions) fees will be applicable for services rendered 1 July 2019 onward. 

**Garrison Health fees will no longer be updated, as the contract between ADF and Medibank Health Solutions will cease from 1 July 2019. Services rendered after this date must be billed through Bupa's new online portal, with the fees available by downloading the ADF Health schedule. For more information on this change, please refer to the ADF Health Services article.

*** Please Note: We have identified a potential issue with items 90276 and 90278 when billing for more than six patients in the latest MBS fee schedule. We have contacted Medicare to determine if it is an issue that needs to be rectified in an additional release of MBS - Nov 2019. Until we can determine whether the fees for these items in the above scenario are correct, please contact Medicare to obtain the correct fees for these items when billing seven or more patients.

****Note: If you downloaded the HCF fee schedule prior to 06/11/2019, please re-download this. There were incorrect fees contained within the schedule available prior to this date, specifically affecting the new MBS Colonoscopy items.

*****Note: If you have already downloaded the TAC fee schedule, please be aware that TAC have re-released their schedule as their original was missing item numbers. We are re-processing this, and hope to have this available in Genie within the coming days.

If you believe a new fee schedule is available for any organisation/fund, please let us know by contacting our Support team.  

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