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Classifying work for Medicare in Kofax 111-19040126




Classification index

Classification index

Suspension reasons

Table 1

Suspension reason

Description

46E

Any 46E(2) Health Insurance Act 1973 forms.

AUTOREPLY

An automatic reply email received.

Examples include:

  • mailbox is in the process of being decommissioned message
  • thank you for your email message
  • email securely delivered message
  • 'auto-reply' included in subject line of message

AVO

Any Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) received are to be suspended and not sent to Medicare enrolment and eligibility.

BATCHISSUE

  • BLANK CLASSIFICATION batch error - Kofax Batch Classification field is blank, preventing classification
  • CANNOTFINALISE batch error - Batch cannot be finalised. Identified where the Batch Content file indicator appears in the first line (batch file details) in the Batch Content section

Classification Support Officer to escalate BATCH ISSUE to the Scanning and Digitisation team for reporting to IT as batch will need to be resubmitted.

BLANKFORM

Form received without attachments that is entirely blank.

A form is not blank if it contains just a signature or typed text in some fields.

CENTRELINK

Any Centrelink form incorrectly faxed/emailed/scanned to the Medicare program or Advice of Death only, for example SA116a.

Medicare death notifications that do require a Medicare claim or processing action are to be classified.

Any Centrelink emails received through the MES mailbox should be deleted from KOFAX. Customers receive an autoreply from this mailbox that instructs of only 4 types of Medicare work are addressed through this mailbox. Therefore, deletion of this work can occur.

CHEQUE

Any document containing cheque(s) that are not a Medicare RTS document are to be actioned by Processing and National Demand Allocation (PaNDA) staff using the image alone. Classification Support Officer will send to system folder. (Non RBA cheques need a PaNDA rescan request to have the cheque and the document forwarded to Debt Recovery/treasury)

COMPENSATION

Medicare Compensation Recovery Notice of judgement or settlement (MO022).

Any other forms for compensation.

COMPLAINT

Any complaint or feedback letters that do not require a claim or processing action.

COMPLIMENT

Any compliment letters that do not require a claim or processing action.

DEATH/DECEASED

Any death notification forms or letters that do not require a claim or processing action.

The agency's Advice of death (SA116a, SA116b and SA116) action these according to the reference number provided. If it is,

  • Medicare card number: classify to enrolments
  • Centrelink: upload to Centrelink
  • Child Support: upload to Child support
  • If there is both a Medicare number and Centrelink CRN, suspend document for Technical Peer Support (TPS) action
  • No identifying Customer Reference Number (CRN)/Medicare number or customer details to identify or create a record. Suspend document for TPS action

ERROR

  • Delivery FAILURE - incorrectly addressed failure notification
  • FAXERROR - incomplete transmission or error during transmission of fax or email where there is not enough data received to identify program or customer
  • FAXHEADERONLY - image contains only the fax header
  • RECIPNOTFOUND - incorrectly addressed failure notification

FOREIGN

Unreadable content.

Data is not in English.

These are usually junk mail.

LHC

Lifetime Health Cover letters and enquiries

Note: delete any LHC letters or enquiries received through a positional mailbox. Only LHC mail received via post are classified as Medicare Eligibility - Enrolment.

MYGOV

Emails requesting assistance or advising of issues with MyGov or requesting a linking code.

NOATTACHMENTS

Document does not contain useable content to identify program and/or refers to attachments that have been stripped out.

NODATA

Document does not contain any useable content to identify the program and/or sender for classification.

NONMEDICARE

Private Health fund application instead of Medicare Claim application.

NonRBA CHEQUE

Any non Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cheques.

Non RBA cheques will require a rescan request to have the cheque and the document forwarded to Debt Recover/treasury.

Cheques that are not RTS, suspend but send to system, as these can be actioned on the image alone.

NOTONBLUEPRINT

Cannot find corresponding images of forms or letters on this blueprint file.

May not be for Medicare due to incorrect addressing.

Image examples of content varies, look for similar titles as may be a previous print version.

OUTOFSCOPE

Examples include:

  • Non agency return to sender
  • Subpoena
  • For Classification Support Officer staff only, Medicare forms not included in this blueprint file
  • Centrelink forms not included in this blueprint
  • Ad-hoc mail outs (contact the Scanning and Digitisation team)

Cheques that are not return to sender can be actioned on the image alone, send to system folder.

Non RBA cheques require a rescan request to have the cheque and the document forwarded to Debt Recovery/treasury.

PROGRAM?

Check if document has been over split.

  • Yes, suspend with reason 'PROGRAM?' see Process > Table 3 to help with processing. Classification Support Officer will send to SYSTEM folder for identification/action
  • No, and invoice only received, unable to identify what program it belongs to, do not classify it to VAP SPEC, suspend with reason 'PROGRAM?' see Process > Table 3 to help with processing. Classification Support Officer will send to SYSTEM folder for identification/action

QUARANTINED

Firewall notification.

The Services Australia firewall has determined the item is suspect.

The word 'quarantine' is included in the Subject: line of the email.

QUOTAEXCEEDED

Firewall notification.

The Services Australia firewall has prevented delivery of the latest mail item as excessive items from same source have been received.

RECALL

Recall email request for previous email.

RESCAN

Document is unable to be classified due to poor scanning and requires a *Rescan Request.

Classification Support Officers are to always try to classify any poor image document in Kofax. Processing and National Demand Allocation (PaNDA) Processing staff will then decide if a Rescan Request is required after classification. Classification Support Officers will only send a Rescan request when Decipha scan prevents classification at all, for example back page only scanned, or fold is hiding required classification data.

SCRIPT

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medication script without pharmacy sticker (does not include scripts for Oxygen bottles resupply).

SPAM/JUNK

Unsolicited mail.

Some examples include:

  • pest control
  • vacancies at Aged Care facilities
  • educational courses
  • mobile app developers
  • linkedIN spam requests grabbed from users Address books

SUBPOENA

Any requests or letters that include 'subpoena'.

UNREADABLE

Image quality is so poor it is unreadable, preventing classification, for example poor fax or print quality.

UNSURE

Service Officer is unsure if document needs classification, or unsure of program, and has not found an Operational Blueprint reference to aid in classification. Classification Support Officer will provide feedback to the Service Officer.

WEEKLY CUSTOMER FEEDBACK DASHBOARD EMAILS

This is a Services Australia report that needs to be suspended for deletion.


List of MED1,2,3,4 buckets with Programs and Work Types

Table 2

MED bucket

Programs and Work Types

MED1

  • Program - Aged Care
  • Program - Patient Claims, Work Type - Banking Details
  • Program - eBusiness
  • Program - Medicare Eligibility
  • Program - Medicare Safety Net
  • Program - Miscellaneous
  • Program - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Work Type - PBS (Stationery)
  • Program - Provider Registration
  • Program - Provider Registration, Work Type - LSPN Application

MED2

  • Program - Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)
  • Program - Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR)
  • Program - Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme (DHCAS)
  • Program - External Breast Prosthesis Reimbursement Program (EBPRP)
  • Program - Thalidomide Support Program (TSP)
  • Program - Continence Aids Program (CAPS)

MED3

  • Program - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
  • Program - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Work Type - PBS Safety Net Claim
  • Program - Veterans' Affairs Processing (VAP)

MED4

  • Program - Aged Care Education and Training Incentive (ACETI)
  • Program - Bulk Bill
  • Program - Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) and Medicare Exemption Levy
  • Program - Medicare Payments
  • Program - Patient Claims
  • Work Type - Teleclaims
  • Program - Return to sender (RTS)
  • Program - Simplified Billing

Contact details

Emergency Management Helpdesks

Scanning and Digitisation team

For Electronic Document Classification (EDC) team, see Operational Planning Health, Integrity and Child Support