HIC Online Installation

Note: Since October 2005, the HIC has operated under the name "Medicare Australia". We have retained references to "HIC" to maintain consistency with the program and familiarity with our users.

HIC Online is a facility which enables claims to be made directly to the HIC using secure transmissions over an Internet connection.

HIC Online provides the following functionality:

• Bulk Bill

• DVA

• Patient Claims (both real-time and store-and-forward)

• ACIR (not yet supported in Genie but planned for a future release)

• Online Patient Medicare Verification

• Online Patient Health Fund Transmissions i.e. Eclipse

HIC Online relies on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology to ensure all communications with the HIC are conducted securely and confidentially.The use of PKI guarantees that messages are sent from a known and trusted source, they can’t be read by anyone but their intended recipients, their contents haven’t been tampered with in transit, and that the sender cannot dispute that they created and sent the message.

PLEASE NOTE: HIC ONLINE VERSION 6.10.28 OR LATER IS REQUIRED IF JAVA VERSION 1.6 IS INSTALLED