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Administration
Customise and manage Helix for your health service.
Centre Settings
Manage your centre's settings and associated details such as adding a new centre, recording your organisation ID to integrate with MyMedicare, updating centre profile, billing information, work areas and other relevant details.
Finance Configuration
Configure the centre billing details and default fee schedule for patient services.
Fee Schedules
Maintain the default fee schedule for patient services that are not bulk billed or DVA-related, import updated MBS and DVA fee schedules into your instance of Helix, and create customised fee schedules.
Medicare Benefits Schedule Import
Helix is initially supplied with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) already loaded. Import updated versions as they become available.
Download MBS or DVA File
Download the MBS or DVA fee updates released periodically by Medicare Online.

Administration
Customise and manage Helix for your health service.
- User Management
  Everyone who needs to access Helix should be added as a user and assigned to a role. Permissions to access various parts of Helix are assigned to roles. The permissions assigned determine what each user can access in Helix.
- Centre Settings
  Manage your centre's settings and associated details such as adding a new centre, recording your organisation ID to integrate with MyMedicare, updating centre profile, billing information, work areas and other relevant details.
  - Centre Management
    Record the MyMedicare organisation ID provided by MyMedicare online in Helix .
  - Add a New Centre
    Add a new centre and related information, such as centre profile, billing, organisation site ID, clinical, messaging settings and other centre settings.
  - Edit a Centre
    Update the required centres and their associated information such as centre profile, pathology settings, work area, imaging settings and other details.
  - Finance Configuration
    Configure the centre billing details and default fee schedule for patient services.
    - Configure Centre Billing
      Add your centre's account details, default billing type, default billing items for different scenarios and your Modified Monash Category for Medicarebilling incentive items.
    - Fee Schedules
      Maintain the default fee schedule for patient services that are not bulk billed or DVA-related, import updated MBS and DVA fee schedules into your instance of Helix, and create customised fee schedules.
      - Display Fee Schedules
        The fee schedules available at your health service are listed in the Fee Schedules window.
      - Customise Fee Schedules (Override Schedules)
        Create custom fee schedules (or Override Schedules), if you want to charge different fees per-state, per-practice, or even per-user.
      - Add Fees Manually
        Add new fees manually and create multiple fee rates for all the schedules.
      - Edit Fees
        Update the fee rates for existing fee schedules in Fee Schedules panel.
      - Add Private Billing Fees
        Add private billing fees to Medicare item numbers and set an effective date.
      - Medicare Benefits Schedule Import
        Helix is initially supplied with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) already loaded. Import updated versions as they become available.
        Download MBS or DVA File
        Download the MBS or DVA fee updates released periodically by Medicare Online.
        Import MBS or DVA Fee File
        Import the MBS or DVA fee update file to Helix to update the MBS and DVA fees charged by your health service.
- Immunisation Schedule Management
  Create a new immunisation schedule, edit the schedule and activate it.
- Template Management
  All templates used in the Letter Writer are managed from the Template Management system.
- Preferences
  Enable ePrescribing, RTPM and set your display preferences.
- Abbreviations
  Abbreviations are essentially frequently used text inserted into a patient's consult using keystrokes.
- Certificates
  PKI certificates are required by many businesses for maintaining access to digital health tools including electronic prescribing and My Health Record.
- Audits
  Use the Audit log to check user access, reauthentication, and any changes made to your patient's personal records.
- Migration to Helix
  Helix uses a FHIR-based tool to migrate your MedicalDirector Clinical data using an iterative approach.

Download MBS or DVA File

Download the MBS or DVA fee updates released periodically by Medicare Online.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Fee Schedule

About this task

Download a MBS or DVA fee updates file from MedicalDirector Helix Updates webpage.

Procedure

To download a fee updates file:

Go to MedicalDirector Helix Updates webpage.
Locate and click Download MBS Update ➔ link.
- Usually a single fee file contains both MBS and DVA updated fees. However, in some cases this might be two separate files. You have to download and import each fee list separately.
- Your practice might have other fees that require updating or the fee list doesn't update the fees you require. In this case, follow these instructions for updating the bulk of the fees and then manually update any remaining fees for your practice. For more information, see Fee Schedules.

Results

A MBS format file has been successfully downloaded and saved to your local system.

What to do next

To import a MBS or DVA fee updates file, select User icon

user >

> Settings > Billing > Fee Schedules section. For more information, see Import MBS or DVA Fee File.