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Find out how to claim your Medicare rebate.
Follow these simple steps below to get started.
A Mental Health Care Plan is how the government is supporting your individual mental health needs; once you pay to see a registered psychologist, they will rebate you some of the money for the session, just like seeing a doctor or specialist. The MHCP is a way of tracking your progress through a GP and making sure you are getting the Mental Health Care you deserve; it holds the GP and Psychologist accountable.
20 (one hour) rebated sessions within the calendar year. This is in total, so it can be from different psychologists, but you get 20 rebated sessions per calendar year. You can always pay full fee and attend as many sessions as you like; but why not let your taxes help you?
You will need to pay for your session first when booking, but you will get the rebate back within a few days of your session.
Any Doctor, your local General Practitioner (GP) at any medical centre or convenient location.
You will receive a Referral Letter and a Mental Health Care Plan. The referral letter is to your new psychologist to let them know what you have already told them. The MHCP is more about the billing side of things and encourages continuation of care between your GP and psychologist.
When you have used up the number of sessions on your current plan.
Your initial plan will be 6 sessions, if you feel like you need more sessions after that, you will be entitled to 4 more after a quick review by your GP, they will need to provide a follow-up MHCP at this stage, after those additional session have been attended, you are entitled to 10 more under the governments “Pandemic Scheme” after another review by your GP. (Totalling 20 sessions per calendar year).
Log into your My Gov account. Click through to Medicare. Then go to the ‘History and statements’ tab and click ‘Medicare claims history’. This will show all the claims that have been processed with your psychologist.
If you’re seeing an inlyfe Psychologist, you can now process your own Medicare rebates using the Express Plus mobile app. To make a claim, simply follow these three steps;
To do this, just log on to your My Gov account. Click through to Medicare. Then go to the ‘History and statements’ tab and click ‘Medicare claims history’. This will show all the claims that have been processed with your psychologist.
