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...following completion of the Medicare Easyclaim Accreditation process, MoneySwitch Ltd t/as Tyro Payments is provisionally accredited by Medicare Australia in accordance with the Electronic Medicare Claiming Accreditation and Service Provision agreement jointly signed on 21 December 2006.

Today, at the Erskineville medical practice of Dr Robert J Lewin, a patient paid her invoice then saw her claim instantaneously processed and the Medicare rebate deposited straight back into her bank account. It took seconds. Finally, it is truly easy to claim with Medicare.

Pure Commerce, an international payment solutions provider, has formed a strategic alliance with independent credit card acquirer Tyro Payments, to deliver an innovative multi-currency EFTPOS solution designed specifically for Australian tourism and hospitality merchants to reduce the cost of accepting credit cards and earn a new revenue stream.

Plans include accelerated migration to chip and PIN technology and measures to strengthen online security and ATMs.

The system incorporates Integrated Eftpos and Integrated Easyclaim for patient paid and bulk billed claims, and gap payments.

My quest for a paperless practice has been tireless and ongoing since ... I began using medical software. The most amazing new gizmo is a dedicated Medicare easyclaim terminal from Tyro...

Current Medicare rebate system is qualified by Herald Sun as a dud. Only $300,000 in Medicare payments were made using Easyclaim in FY2008. The current solution, launched by the big banks, is impractical.

In updated figures supplied to The Sheet yesterday by Medicare, Easyclaim represented just 1.8 per cent of patient claims as at October 2008. The hold up with Easyclaim seems to lie with doctors' unwillingness to participate.

Tyro Payments, the first new entrant into the eftpos market in 10 years, has completed a share offer with a 70% oversubscription.

Tower Systems today announced its strategic partnership with Tyro Payments to provide a state-of-the-art IP EFTPOS platform that is fully integrated with Tower point of sales systems.

After the demise of Bill EXPRESS, newsagents have installed alternative platforms on which to transact EFTPOS, phone recharge and bill payment ...

HCN and Tyro have been working together to develop an integrated solution for practices. The units they have developed allow entry from PracSoft to communicate directly to the EFTPOS machine.

Scheme debit cards account for around one-fifth of the value of debit card payments and a somewhat smaller proportion of the number of debit card payments, preliminary data cited by the Payments System Board in its annual report shows.

At the annual Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College rugby lunch, donations and bids were collected using Tyro GPRS terminals. Principal, Catherine Alcock, expressed thanks for Tyro's continuing support.

Traditional banks are spending billions to upgrade decades-old core technology systems and electronic payments start-ups are nipping at their heels. The Scoop podcast looks at the future of payments and banking in the digital economy.

Surcharging may be becoming more common on credit card payments, data published by East & Partners suggests.

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is rolling out new cashless payment technology to vending machines in Australia.

Frustration is rising over the roll-out of Medicare's Easyclaim system...The advent of the "push-button society" was supposed to make life easy.

The search for trans-Tasman success stories leads to ....Tyro.

Invitations may be extended by the end of 2008 to join the new scheme that banks plan to establish to provide a new framework for the operation of Eftpos.

The Reserve Bank of Australia this morning published the public responses to the Preliminary Conclusions of its 2007/08 Review of the Reform of Australia's Payments System.

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA), in partnership with Vending Management Services Limited (VMSL), is pleased to announce the upcoming pilot of their Cashless Payment System and Cashless Reconciliation Engine (CRE) for Coke Vending.

Credit card companies have begun fining local retailers who do not comply with the Payment Card Industry's data security standard, an industry expert says.

After several months of trialling the Tyro EFTPOS system at locations in Forbes & Bathurst, CountryPharm CEO, Michael Flannery, is pleased to announce that Tyro has been chosen as the preferred EFTPOS partner for the CountryPharm Group.

The Australian Government will assist people to claim Medicare benefits quickly and easily by investing $8.6 million over four years towards streamlining electronic claiming processes.

The government will provide $8.6 million over four years to increase the take-up of electronic Medicare claiming.

Tyro, formerly known as MoneySwitch, is banking on its well overdue Medicare Easyclaim project to drive growth in transaction volumes.

Tyro Payments, the first new entrant into the EFTPOS market in 10 years, completed its first year of business with an annualised transaction volume of $170m. Among the 400 first merchants signed are Toyota, Coca-Cola, Chanel, Mecca, Nandos and Readings.

Independent Australian acquirer Tyro (formerly known as MoneySwitch) has launched integrated EFTPOS with health software partner HCN for Australia's general practices.

The latest release of HCN's MDExchange introduces a new feature whereby the EFTPOS terminal is automatically "driven" by PracSoft while the invoice is being generated at the end of the consultation.

With effect from 30 December 2007, Bill Bartlett has resigned from the Board of Directors of MoneySwitch Limited t/a Tyro Payments.