What can I Claim back from Medicare for Speech Pathology? EPC CDM Medicare 10970 Rebate

Approx $58 back per session (assessment or therapy)

per child per calendar year

We need a copy of the EPC/CDM to have on our records (uploaded to progress notes or child's file) sometimes you need to sign the plan and send it back to the GP before they will actually go ahead with the EPC letter.

Check the number of sessions says 5, it is says less you can only give a special receipt for that amount and for that particular therapy.

Check which box has been ticked by the Dr and ensure that it is for your discipline (speech or OT). If it is for OT and you are a speech pathologist you cannot use that EPC and vice versa. If they only have 2 or 3 sessions allocated on the EPC it is likely they have used some other sessions somewhere else such as with an OT.

The EPC can have any speech pathology name or clinic name on it, and be used at any speech pathologist for a total number of 5 times. They may come to us after using it for 2 sessions elsewhere, therefore we can give them 3 receipts only in total that year.

If they have private health they can choose which they prefer to claim.

But NOT both at the same time. Some parents prefer to use up all their private health as they get more back from each session and then use the 5 Medicare ones.

Or some families prefer to use 5 at the end of the year and get another 5 at the beginning of the next year so they get 10 sessions rebated altogether.