bulk bill

Verb

bulk bill (third-person singular simple present bulk bills, present participle bulk billing, simple past and past participle bulk billed)

1. (Australia) To invoice the government or insurer, and not the patient, for medical expenses incurred at a general practitioner or other medical service provider.
   • 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.1984, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, volume 2, page 1897
   • 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.2003, Darroch Donald, East Coast Australia, page 58
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bulk, bill.