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HICAPS Help Desk phone number is .
For HICAPS Help Desk hours of operation, please refer to
Provider information section.
HICAPS fax number is .
Health Industry Claims And Payments Service. The company
responsible for the switching of transactions to health funds
from the terminal.
The date the membership card was issued. Those cards with
issue dates have them printed on the bottom right-hand
corner of the card.
The amount charged for the given item of service.
Numeric code identifying the type of service performed. Refer
to the HICAPS Quick Reference Guide or the relevant schedule
for a full list of item numbers.
A customer of a Health Fund.
The Multi-Merchant Facility. This is a feature of the HICAPS
terminal which optionally allows you to settle the EFTPOS
funds separately for each provider.
A member listed on the card which identies a given patient
within a Health Fund membership.
The PC-based system which allows a transaction to be sent
directly to the HICAPS terminal.
Practitioners who provide Health Services to patients.
Is eight characters that uniquely identify each individual
provider for a specic location. Provider numbers that HICAPS
use are issued by Medicare Australia or Medibank Private.
Provider numbers are location specic, so you must have a
provider number for each location you wish to practice at.
Refunds a previous EFTPOS or credit approved transaction.
Reverses an approved transaction on the same day the
transaction was processed.
Receipt reference number (unique 2 digit eld).
Pass the membership card through the card reader on the
right-hand side of the HICAPS terminal.
Two digit FDI numeric identifying the tooth on which the
service was performed.
Value of rebate authorised by a Health Fund.
Reverses a transaction processed through the terminal.
A membership card issued by the Health Fund or an EFTPOS or
credit card, issued by a bank.
After treatment is provided, details are sent electronically via
the terminal to the Health Fund.
When a Health Fund declines to pay the request a brief
response message will print with each declined item
and/or claim.
Either the terminal or the associated Practice Management
System prints a receipt, which must be signed by the patient to
acknowledge services and approve the transfer of payment to
the provider.
The terminal facility allowing you to start an EFTPOS
transaction using the Gap amount returned from the HICAPS
Claim.
Two digit numeric identifying the body part/primary
condition/ diagnostic intervention on which the service was
performed.
The date the specic item of service was performed – format
ddmm.
The terminal was unable to contact the bank to process an
EFTPOS transaction, but the transaction has been approved/
declined and will be sent to the bank with the next
transaction.
The amount remaining after the Health Fund has approved a
benet for the specied services.
