bulk bill
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To invoice the government or insurer, and not the patient, for medical expenses incurred at a general practitioner or other medical service provider.
Australian usage
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bulk, bill.
Example Sentences
- "The front page of the publication alleges: A meeting late last year of most local general practitioners decided unanimously that doctors would bulk bill only disadvantaged people, such as pensioners and health care card holders."
- "Doctors who invoice Medicare directly, so charging the patient nothing on examination, are said to bulk bill Those that don′t bulk bill charge the patient, who then has to reclaim the charge from Medicare."
- "For example, in one ad, the female voiceover (representing the government) states: ‘We′re giving doctors more incentives to bulk bill. Medicare is now paying them more every time they bulk bill children under sixteen and Commonwealth concession card holders.’"
Usage
Inflected Forms
bulk bills (present, singular)
bulk billing (participle, present)
bulk billed (participle, past)
bulk billed (past)
bulk-bill (alternative)