Your Mental Health Plan and referral letter will give you access to Medicare rebated psychology sessions. You are entitled to up to 10 sessions per calendar year under the Medicare scheme and they are allocated to you in blocks of 6 and 4.  

With a doctor’s referral letter, you can claim an initial 6 psychology sessions per calendar year. If, at the end of your 5^th or 6^th session, you feel you’d benefit from further psychology sessions, you’ll need to go back to your doctor for a review referral. Your review referral will give you access to the additional 4 rebated psychology sessions. 

It’s important you go to your GP for your review referral before you complete any further sessions, otherwise you won’t be eligible for a rebate. 

You can view your full Medicare claims history when you log into your Medicare account. Here you’ll be able to see each individual claim you’ve submitted, so you can keep track of your claims and work out which psychology sessions still need claiming. 

You can identify which session your claim is referring to by the date of the service, who the service provider was, and the cost of the service. 

Each claim on your myGov account will also show the amount you were rebated, the date the rebate was paid to you, and your out-of-pocket expense for the service after the rebate. 

When completing your claim, you simply need to enter the amount you paid for your psychology session and Medicare will calculate your rebate.  

If you see a general psychologist you’ll get back $96.65 in your rebate, and if you see a clinical psychologist you will get back $141.85.

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No, if you are eligible for bulk-billed psychology services you do not need to make a claim through Medicare. Once you submit your bulk billing request form and it has been approved, My Mirror will handle the claim on your behalf. 

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Your claim will be rejected if you provide incorrect details or if you’re submitting a claim for a psychology session you’ve already claimed for in the past.  

You won’t be eligible for a rebate without your referral letter and Mental Health Plan, which can give you up to 10 rebated psychology sessions per calendar year. This means that Medicare will reject your claim if you have received more than 10 rebated sessions in one calendar year, regardless of the amount of sessions your doctor refers you for. 

Once you have your invoice, you can make your claim straight away. The sooner you make your claim, the sooner you’ll receive your rebate. 

Medicare can’t accept claims for psychology sessions that are over two years old.