Bank Reconciliation Electronic Funds Transfer Enquiry (BREFTE) system for Medicare 011-43170000

This document outlines information about the Bank Reconciliation Electronic Funds Transfer Enquiry (BREFTE) system for Medicare.

Changes to the BREFTE system

BREFTE is an enquiry system for electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments processed by the Medicare payment systems. BREFTE:

• records EFT payment status and text data associated with an EFT payment
• reflects the actions performed in the claims processing transactions relating to EFT claims for paid accounts.

As part of the ‘Move all Medicare payments to Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)’ 2015/2016 budget initiative changes have been made to the BREFTE system.

Changes to BREFTE for the Medicare patient claims allows payment of claims to be held, where current valid EFT details are not available at time of processing:

• A Batch job will be run each night to search Consumer Directory Maintenance System (CDMS) and identify any new EFT details recorded in CDMS for a claimant that has a ‘HELD’ payment.
• Where new details are found the system will insert these EFT details into the BREFTE Redirect table.
• These details will be picked up and processed in the next payment run and the benefit will be paid.

The Resources page contains a link to the User Reference Guide Changes to BREFTE system for 2007.