Seeing Doctor Before Registering With Medicare
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Ok, just arrived and worse case has happened and need to see a doctor before managing to register with Medicare. This has happened because the "patient" is unabe to get to a medicare office to register.
It also looks like x-rays might be needed on a fractured foot.
What are our options? Can we retrospectively claim? Or do we have to take the hit?
Any help would be appreciated.
It also looks like x-rays might be needed on a fractured foot.
What are our options? Can we retrospectively claim? Or do we have to take the hit?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Ok, just arrived and worse case has happened and need to see a doctor before managing to register with Medicare. This has happened because the "patient" is unabe to get to a medicare office to register.
It also looks like x-rays might be needed on a fractured foot.
What are our options? Can we retrospectively claim? Or do we have to take the hit?
Any help would be appreciated.
It also looks like x-rays might be needed on a fractured foot.
What are our options? Can we retrospectively claim? Or do we have to take the hit?
Any help would be appreciated.
Hope the foot's ok!
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I don't know for certain but I would imagine that you would be able to be backpaid for medicare benefits .... you certainly can if you were a visitor from the UK under the reciprocal health agreement and you needed treatment before you had registered with medicare. I suspect it would be the same. All I can suggest for certainty is to phone Medicare and ask them what will happen, it would appear to be a 24/7 phone service .... " 132 011*(local call rate) 24 hours, seven days a week"
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Why would you need proof of NHS to register for Medicare? Do you have a valid PR visa?
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The UK health card is crappy little cardboard thing that you take to your UK doctor when you register with the GP practice. I'm not sure where you get them from but my mum had ours for years! But I don't think anyone would want to see one of them here.
When my mum fell ill over here she just showed her UK passport and they didn't charge her for her hospital stay. They did however charge her over $500 for an ambulance so that's something to be cautious of if anyone needs to use an ambulance in QLD whilst on holiday.
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I had to go to a dr while waiting for my Medicare card to be issued. When it arrived I just took my Drs receipts into the Medicare office and got most of it back.
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A passport does the trick at A&E - I've done it. A visiting friend we took to hospital was also trusted on the basis of his terribly British accent.
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I think officially the recpirocal health agreement demands residency in the UK, not citizenship of the UK. So someone with a British passport but resident in the USA would not be eligible from what I understand. Despite this, in practice it seems only sometimes is this rule enforced and proof of residency in the UK insisted upon. ie NHS card or similar.
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We were charged for some stuff by our local doc, they had to put it through as if he was a private patient but he went to medicare the next day, got his new card and when he gave them the receipts they refunded most of the charges.
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