GPs urged to lodge backdated claims after Medicare glitches

Tech issues affected Medicare for around 48 hours, says Services Australia.
Rachel Fieldhouse

Doctors who were thwarted by a nationwide Medicare outage should retrospectively lodge any claims that failed to go through earlier in the week, Services Australia says.

Online MBS, PBS and Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) claims reportedly suffered crashes and delays on Monday and Tuesday after a Services Australia computer update over the weekend.Â