Montserrat Day Hospitals Endoscopy Colonoscopy Bowel Cancer Screening Brisbane Australia

Payment Information

Patients Covered by Private Health Care

Montserrat Day Hospitals is a “Simplified billing” billing hospital. You will be informed prior to the procedure of out-of-pocket expenses. Simplified billing means that, with your consent, the accounts for your procedures will be sent to the relevant health funds.

If you have adequate cover for your procedure the account will be settled with them. If you are not fully covered you will be asked for payment which is in excess of the benefit payable.

Some patients may be requested to provide a ‘co-payment’ which contributes to amounts paid by your health fund provider. You should be aware that many policies do not cover all costs associated with Hospital and Medical services.

If biopsy tissue is sent for pathology you may receive another account from the pathology service provider.

Montserrat has agreements with most major private health funds such as Medibank Private, MBF/BUPA, HCF (including Manchester Unity), GMHBA, NIB, Alliance, DVA and many more. Some of these agreements are what is known as Private Health Fund Agreements and some of these agreements are under Tier 2 arrangements. In all cases you will be advised of an out of pocket expenses in advance of your procedure. Some of these arrangments provide for further 'co-payments' by patients and you will be advised at the time of booking.

Self-Insured patients

Self-Insured patients will be provided with a cost estimate for their procedure. Payment will be required at the time of booking.T

Theatre Fees

The theatre fees are payable based on an estimate of time in theatre made by your surgeon prior to admission. If the time in theatre exceeds the estimate then additional charges will be applied. This is primarily determined by the time taken by the Surgeon to perform the procedure.

Work Cover

If you are claiming Work Cover insurance, company approval will need to be obtained prior to your admission. Please check with your doctor, or with us, that approval has been granted for your procedure.

Veterans Affairs

Veteran’s Affairs do not always cover hospital and doctors fees. Prior approval is usually required for your procedure to be undertaken at our facility. Please check with our reception staff for advice. Gold Card holders are covered in full for all endoscopy procedures. White Card holders require prior approval and should therefore contact us on (07) 3833 6701 to determine eligibility.

Overseas Patients

Montserrat facilities welcome referrals to see overseas visitors and students. Our locations close to Brisbane’s QUT and the University of Queensland make us a logical choice. You should consult your private health fund as you may be entitled to a refund/payment after visiting one of our facilities. Overseas patients should also ask their GP for a referral to Montserrat to see one of our Specialists.

Pensioners

Montserrat is pleased to be able to offer a discount on our normal rates to pensioners that are seen via our Open Access Endoscopy Service. Pensioners should contact our staff on (07) 3833 6701 to enquire about these rates. Self-Insured pensioners will also be provided with a cost estimate for their procedure. Payment will be required on the day.

Why Choose Montserrat

We offer a 10 Day Patient Promise
We have 6 Highly Trained and Skilled Specialists
Montserrat has been operating for 14 years
We operate the latest Endoscopes and Equipment
We have a 0% rate of Hospital Acquired Infection at owned Hospitals
We operate at 5 Locations, 3 of which we own and Operate
Our Staff are highly trained employees, not Agency casuals
We operate a Saturday session at Indooroopilly and
We listen and We care, so 'Be our Guest'

Montserrat also has agreements with the following Australian Health Services Alliance members:

• CUA Health Limited
• Grand United Corporate Health Ltd
• GMF Health / Healthguard Health Benefits Fund Ltd
• GMHBA
• Health Care Insurance Ltd
• HIF of WA
• Peoplecare
• Navy Health Ltd
• Teachers Federation Health
• Onemedifund
• Phoenix Health Fund Ltd
• Queensland Country Health Ltd
• Teachers Union Health
• Reserve Bank Health Fund
• R T Health Fund Ltd
• Police Health
• Health Partners
• Transport Health
• Westfund
• ACA Health Benefits Fund
• Defence Health
• The Doctors’ Health Fund Ltd – AMA
• Australian Unity Health Ltd
• CBHS Health Fund Limited

** Please note that when booking your appointment you will be asked to pay for any out-of-pocket expenses in advance by credit card. This enables us to speed up the process of admission at all of our clinics. These payments are transacted electronically via our NAB Connect secure payments system and we do not retain copies of any of your credit card details. If you cancel your appointment we will gladly refund your payment **