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Introduction
The Brevity Funding Claim is accessed through the client > Funding Claim sub menu. This interface has a two fold purpose of (1) enabling Plan Manager to review monthly plan management fees collected through the Plan Management and reported for payment to Proda and (2) creating payment files that list completed direct services and core supports delivered to ndis funded participants that can be uploaded and processed through Proda.
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Plan Management
For additional information on generating the client funding claim file for the reporting of you recurring monthly financial intermediary services fee (14_034_0127_8_3) refer to the topic Plan Management Monthly Processing Fees.
Navigating the Funding Claim List page
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The following is a summary of the fields and objects that comprise the Funding Claim list page
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Navigating the Funding Claim page
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The following is a summary of the fields and objects that comprise the Funding Claim page
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Funding Claim Reporting criteria
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of the reporting criteria.
The criteria listed below is used to determine the participant CORE supports and direct services reported into the funding claim file:
The Participants scheduled CORE supports and direct services has been completed either at the conclusion of the service by the support worker through the mobile app or through the Schedule Board or the scheduled CORE supports and direct services has been cancelled through the Schedule Board.
The funding source is NDIS.
Employee timesheet has been approved. Prior to timesheet approval you have reviewed any variations between the schedule start and end times and the support workers clock in and clock off times.
For additional information refer to the following topic
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The funding source is NDIS.
Generating a Funding Claim
To create a Funding Claim observe the following steps:
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Select the Client>Funding Claims sub menu to open the Funding Claims page.
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Click the Create Funding Claim link located in the ribbon bar to open the Create Funding Claim for Clients
page.
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Within the From Date field position your cursor and either input in free text the reporting start date or make your selection from the time picker.
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Within the To Date field position your cursor and either input in free text the reporting start date or make your selection from the time picker.
Select the Next button.
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Select the Approve Timesheet link to open the Approve Employee Timesheet page
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Highlight the Client Invoice Batch record and click the Generate Claims button
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From the pop up screen select the OK button to confirm the creation of the Funding Claim.
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You will note that individual Direct Services and Core Supports will be grouped by the Service Type to reflect a single invoice line.
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Schedule BoardOnce the selected services have been included into the Invoice Batch those services listed within the schedule board will be updated with the 
icon to identify that they have been invoiced.
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Editing a Funding Claim
As we discussed earlier, if your using Brevity to deliver to and invoice your participants for direct service and core supports as well as plan manage them, you funding claims will reflect both those services. It is important to note that the funding claims listed can also include those records that have been generated to enable you to process and receipt payment on previously rejected claims. To edit an Funding Claim observe the following steps:
Select the Client>Funding Claim sub menu to open the Funding Claims List page.
Depending upon the number of the funding claims listed, you can filter the records listed by specifying a reporting date range within the From Date and To Date fields. The reporting date can either be input in free text or selected from the calendar picker.
Highlight the funding claim record that is to be edited and either click on the edit button or double click on the batch record to open it within the invoice batch record page.
Activities undertaken on the Funding Claim record are limited to the following:
✴ Deleting an Invoice please refer to the topic Delete an Invoice
✴ Downloading a Claim File please refer to the topic Downloading a claim file
✴ Managing Rejected Claims please refer to the topic Managing Rejected Claims
✴ Managing the status of the batch Invoices please refer to the topic Managing the Payment Status
✴ Printing Invoices please refer to the topic Printing an invoice
✴ Sending Invoices via email please refer to the topic Sending Invoices
✴ Updating payment information please refer to the topic Update Payment information
Update Payment information
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Observe steps 1 -3 as outlined under the topic Editing a Funding Claim.
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Highlight the invoice record listed under the Invoice Batch tab and double click it to open the Edit Invoice record page.
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Within the Edit Invoice record page apply edits to the following fields.
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Delete an Invoice
To exclude an invoice line from the from the funding claim, you can delete it from the funding claim by observing the following steps:
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Observe steps 1 -3 as outlined under the topic Editing a Funding Claim.
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Select the Delete Record icon.
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From the pop up screen select the OK button to confirm deletion of the Invoice record.
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Select the button to exit back to the Invoice Batch List page.
Schedule BoardOnce the invoice has been deleted the selected services that had been included into the Invoice will revert back to uninvoiced services within the schedule board. The icon will be removed from the service panel within the schedule board. To resubmit those services back into a funding claim for the client repeat the steps as outlined under the topic Generating a Funding Claim .
Delete Invoice detail
Under no circumstance are you to delete the invoice details record that is listed against the invoice, to do so will not only remove the service line from the invoice it will delete the clients completed or cancelled service from the schedule board as well as the accompanying approved employee timesheet.
Downloading a claim file
To download a funding claim file observe the following steps as outlined. For information on uploading the claim file to PRODA refer to the topic Uploading the Claim file to PRODA.
Observe steps 1 -3 as outlined under the topic Editing a Funding Claim.
Click the Download Claim File link from the ribbon bar
A pop up screen will be presented. Select the Save File option and click the OK button to save the claim file to your hard-drive.
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Uploading the Claim file to PRODA
To Upload the Bulk Claim Payment file through the myplace provider portal observe the following steps:
Select the Bulk Payment Request Upload tile to open the Bulk Upload page.
From the Bulk Upload page search for the bulk payment file , by clicking on the choose file field.
Select the Upload button.
Downloading the Remittance File
To download the Remittance file through the myplace provider portal observe the following steps:
Select the View Payment Request tile and search for the recent bulk upload file.
In the View By drop-down, select Upload Bulk Payment File.
In the Search by drop-down, select Duration as the search criteria, enter the From Date and To Date
Download the remittance csv file at the the bottom of the page via the Download Results button.
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Uploading the Remittance
To upload the Remittance file that was downloaded from PRODA observe the following steps:
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Select the Client>Funding Claim sub menu to open the Funding Claim List page.
Click the Upload Remittance File link located within the ribbon bar to open the Upload Remittance CSV file page.
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Select the choose file button to search for and select the Remittance file located you computer, the selected remittance file will be listed in the upload screen.
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Click the Save and continue button. Brevity will list a preview of invoices lines contained within the Remittance file.
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Click Import data button.
A pop up screen will ask you to confirm your action click OK to confirm import of the data.
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This will update the payment and rejection status of the line items of the invoices as well as the respective payment amounts received from NDIS within the claim batch. You can then check the rejected invoices within the batch, update them appropriately, and re-send to NDIS again.
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✴The remittance file is specific with the claim batch that was generated from Brevity, therefore it is necessary that you first download the remittance file from PRODA and then upload into Brevity.
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Managing Rejected Claims
To generate a new funding claim file that contains invoice lines that had been rejected due to error observe the following steps:
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Observe steps 1 -3 as outlined under the topic Editing a Funding Claim.
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Click the Download Claim File link from the ribbon bar
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A pop up screen will be presented. Select the OK button to confirm the generation of a new funding claim record.
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Refer to steps 2 -3 under the topic Downloading a claim file.
Managing the Payment Status
To managed the payment status of an invoice within the funding Claim observe the following steps. For additional information on this process also refer to the topic Modifying the Client's Claim.
Observe steps 1 -3 as outlined under the topic Editing a Funding Claim.
Click the Manage Payments link from the ribbon bar to open the Manage Payment Status page.
Scroll to the invoice line that is to be updated.
To adjust the invoice status position your cursor in the status field and select the revised status from the drop down list.
Input a summary of the details for the status change within the comments field.
Select the save button, to update the invoice.
Select the Close button to exit back to the batch record.
Observe that the status has been updated on the invoice record.
Printing an invoice
If there is a need to provide the participant with an invoice of the direct services and core supports they have received for the period covered within the funding claim, you can print an Invoice to file by observing the following steps:
Observe steps 1 -3 as outlined under the topic Editing a Funding Claim.
Click the Print Invoices button from the ribbon bar to open the Print Invoices page.
Click the
save icon to export the invoice to pdf format.
Sending Invoices
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Sending out invoices using email from Brevity is undertaken through Send Invoices interface. To utilise email to provide your participants with an invoice of the direct services and core supports they have received for the period as defined within Invoice From and Invoice To date fields, observe the following steps:
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Depending upon the number of the Funding Claim records listed , you can filter the records listed by specifying a reporting date range within the From Date and To Date fields. The reporting date can either be input in free text or selected from the calendar picker.
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Highlight the Funding Claim record and then click the Send Invoices button to open the Send Invoice interface.
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Within the Email Template field select the Invoice NDIS email template.
The selected email template will update the Email Body field
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Within the Funding Source field position your cursor an either input in free text the funding source or select from the drop down list the applicable funding source associated with the invoice batch.
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Within the Invoice From Date field specify the start date of the invoice period. The date can be either input in free text or set from the calendar picker.
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Within the Invoice To Date field specify the end date of the invoice period. The date can be either input in free text or set from the calendar picker.
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Within the subject line input a brief description that will be included into the message line for the email.
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Update the the email body with any additional changes. For changes made select the button to preserve those changes for future use.
Click the Preview button to return a list of participant names associated with the invoice batch.
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