Billing

Standard Consulting fees from 1 July 2024

During Normal Hours (8:00am - 6:00pm weekdays and 8:00am - 11:00am Saturdays)

Although we do not routinely bulk bill our patients we do provide a service for bulk billing our Pensioners. Health Care Cardholders receive a discounted fee and private fees to non-card holders up to the AMA rate.

Please discuss any financial difficulties you may have with our fees with your Doctor.

Our friendly accounts staff will be able to advise the cost of specific procedures.

After Hours (from 5.30pm weeknights, Saturday and Sunday evenings & Public Holidays)

Bulk billing, pensioner or repat discounts are generally not accepted in after-hours clinics.

Visitors and itinerant patients are required to pay in full for after-hours services.

A GP will be available after hours for phone consultations only unless another course of action is recommended. Patients with urgent health concerns may call our after-hours service and speak to a GP. Our After-Hours service is a privately billed service. It is not bulk billed, and no discounts, or other billing policies apply to this service. Please be aware that there will be an Out of Pocket gap fee between $75 and $150 billed to your account.

Fees

Hawkins Clinic determines its own fee structure because of the inability of Medicare fees to keep pace with inflation.

Patients are encouraged to pay for all consults on the day. Our TYRO Eftpos system allows patients to receive Medicare rebates back into their account within 11 seconds when they pay in full with their debit card. Alternatively patients can use their credit card and receive their Medicare rebate the next day into their bank account. Please note the only condition for the next day rebate is that patients need to have registered their account with Medicare for the rebates to be put back into their account.

The doctor is responsible at all times to determine the fee they feel is appropriate for the individual patient. Patients are encouraged to discuss with their doctor any difficulty they may have in meeting the consultation fee.

Below are our general fees for other types of consultations we offer-

Non Attendance

If you are unable to attend your appointment and haven't phoned the clinic to cancel in advance you may be charged a non-attendance fee. Patients with mobile phones are encouraged to register for SMS reminders which are generated from within our appointment software.

Non attendance - Standard consult $50.00

Non attendance – Long consult $75.00

Skin Check Clinics (Our clinic fee policy for skin check clinics applies to pensioners and non-pensioners).

Skin checks: Total fee $182.90, Medicare rebate $82.90 gap fee $100.00

Procedures: Minor procedures including skin lesion biopsies, excision and curettage of lesion - Fees for these procedures include a medicare rebate which is dependent on the item number plus a gap fee, starting at $100.00. After care is included in these fees (removal of sutures) and the total will be charged at the conclusion of the service.

Other services

Vaccines:

*The fee schedule may be subject to change at the discretion of the treating doctor*