Doctors

How to pay for doctors and earn credit card rewards points

The cost of doctors and other medical expenses are not commonly covered by businesses.

However, you may choose to pay the medical expenses and rehabilitation costs not covered by workers compensation for an employee injured at work.

Similarly, pre-employment medical examinations are legislative requirements in certain industries, and not usually covered by Medicare benefits.

And you may also offer your employees access to annual complimentary healthcare and screenings that are also not included as part of standard Medicare benefits.

Regardless of the reason, an employer incurring costs for employee visits to a doctor and other healthcare treatments is not unheard of.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could still earn credit card reward points for these expenses?

With pay.com.au you can easily boost your points-earning potential by using your rewards-linked business credit card to pay for employee medical and doctors’ expenses.

Even if the healthcare provider does not accept credit card payments.

With low fees and a simple and easy-to-use interface, we help you do business better.

While it certainly won’t be a regular expense, each point you earn on your credit card puts you closer to a Business Class seat on your next flight.

 

How does paying for doctors with a credit card work in the real world?

Most doctors and healthcare providers accept VISA and Mastercard credit card payments, but not all will accept American Express cards.

And with American Express cards offering some of the best points-earning potential, this would normally mean you lose out on valuable rewards.

With pay.com.au, you can use your favourite points-earning card to pay us, and we will promptly pay each provider on your behalf.

Even if they don’t accept credit card payments.

The timing between a credit card payment made to us by you and receipt by the payee is typically only T+2 days.

And with the lowest processing fees on the market, you needn’t worry about the significant credit card rewards costing you more.

How many points can you earn paying for medical expenses with a credit card?

Depending on the size of your business and the employee medical expenses you are willing to pay, your earning potential will vary.

Even if they aren’t that high or frequent, using pay.com.au to pay most of your business expenses means each point counts.

With the right business credit card, you could be earning up to 1.25 points per dollar spent on all doctor costs and medical expenses paid through pay.com.au

Don’t have a high points-earning business credit card?

Sign up to one of our well-priced subscription services and we can even help you pick the best card for your business to maximise your rewards, and give you personalised advice on getting the most out of your points.

We will also help you find and book those elusive First Class and Business Class rewards seats to help get you on your way.

What else can you use pay.com.au to pay for?

We don’t just allow businesses to make credit card payments for doctors and other healthcare costs.

We can also process payments for insurance and professional membership fees or assist in making rent payments and buying business equipment.

You can even use our service to make payments for employee superannuation and to pay ATO bills.

What fees are involved?

pay.com.au offers the lowest fees on the market for processing credit card payments for business related medical expenses. And signing up to one of our great-value subscription packages – which come with a range of other benefits – can bring those fees down even lower.

On our free plan, we charge a 1% fee plus GST for Mastercard transactions, 1.20% plus GST for VISA and 2.10% plus GST for American Express.

On our Premium plan, these fees are 0.20% lower for all card transactions.

How do I sign up?

It’s easy.

Just head to pay.com.au and follow the prompts to sign your business up.

You too could soon be joining our growing number of very happy customers flying at the pointy end of the plane.