The billing work is the same as anywhere else. The local parts are your rooms, the clock and the workers’ compensation scheme.
Adelaide’s private hospitals sit close together: Calvary Adelaide and St Andrew’s in the city, Calvary North Adelaide and the Memorial in North Adelaide, Burnside in the inner east, Flinders Private at Bedford Park and Ashford Hospital to the south. You tell us which rooms you work with; we contact each one, and from then on your lists come to us directly every week.
Workers’ compensation in South Australia runs through ReturnToWorkSA, so your SA work injury claims are billed to ReturnToWorkSA rather than to an interstate scheme. We bill them alongside your Medicare, health fund and DVA claims.
South Australia is half an hour behind Victoria all year, because both states start and finish daylight saving on the same dates. Our phones are answered 8:30am–4:30pm Adelaide time.
For SA group practices: one process across the whole group, with individual reporting for each anaesthetist. Groups collecting over about $200,000 a month get a custom rate, typically below 4.5%.