Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) quality checking in QST 111-22112508
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Error codes - Processing IHI Portal and manual
Table 2
Error codes |
Error definition |
MS03 Critical |
First name/Surname missing at Question 23 - Application form (manual) |
MS04 Critical |
Declaration not ticked at Question 23 - Application form (manual) |
MS05 Critical |
Question 13, 14 and 19 not answered or incorrectly answered and nothing noted that phone call has been made - keyed and accepted (manual) |
MS06 Critical |
Declaration made by 3rd party not customer (manual) |
MS07 Critical |
Gender and/or date of birth recorded incorrectly or not all names on the passport recorded/not amended in Personal and contact details section (both) |
MS08 Critical |
Name/title recorded incorrectly or not all names on the passport recorded/not amended in Personal and contact details section (both) |
MS09 Critical |
Residential/postal address keyed incorrectly or omitted (manual) |
MS10 Critical |
Incorrect period approved due to keying error (manual) |
MS11 Critical |
Claiming financial year keyed incorrectly (manual) |
MS13 Critical |
Tax Agency details not keyed or keyed incorrectly in Tax Agent Tab (manual) |
MS15 Critical |
Critical questions not completed on MES form - Questions 6,17 and 18 (manual) |
MS16 Non-critical |
Assessing comments in the portal keyed incorrectly or omitted (both) |
MS17 Critical |
Same financial year keyed and approved in portal - MES portal/database check not performed (manual) |
MS42 Critical |
Passport details (all names, gender, date of birth, passport number, the origin of passport) recorded incorrectly or not amended as per the supplied passport (both) |
MS43 Critical |
Application was not keyed while it should have been (manual) |
MS44 Non-critical |
Applicant ID has been duplicated in error (manual) |
MS46 Critical |
More information requested but status not changed to 'on hold' in the MES portal (both) |
MS53 Critical |
Application revoked or withdrawn in error in the MES Portal (both) |
MS54 Critical |
Customer's name registered all in lower case in Personal and contact details section/not amended (both) |
MS55 Non-critical |
Contact number or email address recorded incorrectly or not amended in Personal and contact details section (both) |
Error codes - Letters IHI Portal and manual
Table 3
Error codes |
Error definition |
MS18 Critical |
Incorrect letter chosen and/or inappropriate options (letter/online task) selected for documents requested (both) |
MS19 Critical |
Name/address on letter keyed incorrectly (both) |
MS20 Critical |
Letter not sent to customer/tax agent (both) |
MS21 Critical |
Incorrect recipient chosen - customer/tax agent (both) |
MS22 Critical |
Incorrect application number quoted in the letter (both) |
MS52 Critical |
Letter not uploaded in MES Portal (application registered in MES Portal) (both) |
MS56 Critical |
Letter was not sent via online task where it should have been (IHI) |
MS57 Critical |
Incorrect formatting of the letter, for example, fonts, spacing, indents (both) |
Error codes - PaNDA IHI Portal and manual
Table 4
Error codes |
Error definition |
MS23 Non-critical |
Naming convention error (this is not changed for MES DUC) (both) |
MS24 Non-critical |
PaNDA note omitted from pended PaNDA file (both) |
MS25 Non-critical |
Sent letter not uploaded in PaNDA file (application not registered in MES Portal) (manual) |
MS26 Non-critical |
Word document with multiple application numbers not uploaded to PaNDA file (manual) |
MS27 Critical |
Actioned without correct documents uploaded/associated in PaNDA (both) |
MS28 Critical |
PaNDA file completed in error - no action taken (both) |
MS29 Critical |
Incorrect files associated (different customers, different programme) (both) |
MS30 Critical |
Incorrect document uploaded (for example, documents for enrolments uploaded and used) (both) |
MS47 Critical |
Multiple IHI files have been associated in error |
MS48 Non-critical |
Work items via DUC, email or post for the same customer (pend/open status) allocated in a bundle and actioned by same operator but not associated (manual) |
Error codes - Assessing IHI Portal and manual
Table 5
Error codes |
Error definition |
MS32 Critical |
Multiple applications for different financial years submitted but not all keyed (manual) |
MS33 Critical |
Application for different customer submitted in same PDF file but not extracted and re-uploaded to PaNDA for processing (manual) |
MS34 Critical |
Not all checks completed and documents/information on visa, health insurance etc. were missed, resulting in an incorrect assessment (both) |
MS36 Critical |
Application approved without a clear passport or no passport or IHI application approved while travel documents not verified and no passport copy supplied (both) |
MS37 Critical |
Duplicate statement not issued/issued in error (both) |
MS38 Critical |
Not skilled for work type - actioned in error (both) |
MS39 Critical |
Missing information/documents - Email check/PaNDA search not performed and information requested while already supplied (both) |
MS50 Critical |
Application approved without correct documents/information (both) |
MS58 Critical |
Old version of application form accepted (manual) |
MS59 Critical |
Application received via email by customer accepted in error (manual) |
MS60 Critical |
Future period approved in error (both) |
MS61 Non-critical |
A VEVO check was run while no travel document copy supplied as already verified (IHI) |
Error codes – Email (Tax agents only)
Table 6
Error codes |
Error definition |
MS40 Critical |
Email response sent to incorrect recipient |
MS41 Critical |
Sent email response not moved to 'Sent' folder in the tax agent email box |
MS51 Non-critical |
Email sent with incorrect classification other than 'Official-Sensitive' |
MS62 Critical |
The tax agent email box was used to reply to customer where it should not have been |