Managing Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program (BBPIP) participation is now easier with Services Australia’s eligibility assessments.
General Practices participating in BBPIP are encouraged to login to Health Professional Online Services (HPOS) to check that all doctors are linked and have current bank details added to BBPIP to ensure timely payment. Each GP at your practice must login to Provider Digital Services (PRODA) individually to add bank account details for BBPIP (see Adding provider bank account details for BBPIP for step-by-step instructions).
Through HPOS, practices and providers participating in BBPIP can use:
Forecast assessment to check eligibility requirements, monitor bulk billing percentages, and estimate practice payments at any point in the quarter
Final assessment to confirm if requirements for BBPIP payments have been met and view the final payment after the end of the quarter.
If your practice is registered and meets BBPIP program requirements, your first BBPIP payment will be made in January 2026.
To ensure smooth payment, practices should:
Check the registration start date
Provide bank details for the practice and all linked providers for BBPIP
Keep accreditation up to date
Link all providers with separate provider numbers for each site.
The forecast assessment will provide a point-in-time assessment of your payment eligibility for the current period, based on available data from the time the assessment was run. Note that practices can only run one forecast assessment per day.
Use your forecast or final assessment (see slide 7) to:
Confirm that all your providers have bank account details added.
If any provider bank details are missing, you can identify those providers using the ‘providers’ tab (see slide 8)
Each doctor must login to PRODA as an individual to update their bank account details for BBPIP. If a GP delivers services across multiple locations, they must nominate bank details at each BBPIP participating practice location. Please refer to Services Australia resource Adding provider bank account details for BBPIP for step-by-step instructions for providers.
Check your BBPIP Registration Date is correct.
Check the ‘Days counted for payment’ (see slide 8)
Practices may backdate BBPIP registration (to as early as 1 November 2025), so long as they were bulk billing all eligible services from this date.
