Payment Options

After the consultation, your health fund or Medicare card is simply swiped into the HICAPS terminal. Your claim details are entered and in seconds the whole transaction is processed.

With assistance from the Federal Government, Medicare has introduced a Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS) that provides children access to basic dental services from the ages of 2-17 years old. The entitlement is capped at $1,000 per child for every two calendar year period.

To be eligible, you or the child must be claiming one of the following benefits: Family Tax Benefits-Part A, Parenting Payment, Abstudy, Youth Allowance, Carer’s Payment, Disability Support Pension, Special Benefits or Double Orphan Pension. To enquire if your child is eligible, please contact Medicare on 132 011.

Dental services involve the prevention and treatment of oral disease and include general dental services, the filling and crowning of teeth, the construction of dentures, and dental implant treatment.  DVA does not fund dental treatments that are for cosmetic purposes. 

If you are on the waiting list for public dental treatment, you may be offered a voucher to be used at a private dental practice. Eligible public dental patients on a waiting list in Queensland Health scheme have the option to have procedures done by a private dentist.