Revenue found. Savings made. Decisions backed by data.
Nova Consulting gives Australian organisations an independent, data-led view of their revenue, costs and compliance. Every finding is rebuilt from your source data, showing where money leaks, why, and, in plain terms, what the evidence does and doesn't support. Established in New Zealand in 2019, now working across Australia and New Zealand with deep expertise in healthcare.
As at October 2026, across New Zealand and Australia. Cash delivered is additional funding, revenue and savings actually realised by clients as a result of Nova's work. Monthly reports are counted individually.
Independent, data-led consulting
Revenue, cost, compliance and operations, rebuilt from your own source data and tested against the rules that apply. Clear findings on where money is made and lost, and what to fix first.
Industrial and compliance review
Evidence assessed against modern awards, enterprise agreements, enforceable undertakings and court orders, for HR, industrial relations and legal teams.
Industrial and complianceFinancial performance
Independent diagnostics, budgets and reviews that find savings and make them stick.
Financial performanceOperational performance
Rosters, supplier contracts and medical staffing arrangements, tested against what you actually pay.
Operational performanceData and insights
Analysis and reporting that show where money is made and lost, including Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) billing analytics.
Data and insightsSpecialising in health revenue assurance
Revenue leakage in health services follows predictable patterns. Every service is traced from the point of care through charge capture, claiming, receipting and payment into the ledger, showing what's real, what isn't, and what to fix first.
Health revenue assurance
An independent management assessment of your revenue, built from raw billing, payroll and payment data rather than management reports. For state and territory health services, private hospital operators and specialist clinics.
- Items that stopped billing after a system go-live
- Late billing and charge-capture gaps
- MBS changes that look like losses but aren't
- Ageing worklists at risk of the one-year bulk-bill claim limit
Billing and claiming diagnostics
From activity to payment, plus MBS billing analytics by specialty and item, and claim time-limit exposure.
02Private practice and bonus reviews
Entitlements recalculated from source data and reconciled to what was actually paid.
03Revenue process and controls
The end-to-end process mapped, with control points and an issues register for every stage.
04Independent validation
Another team's findings re-run from raw data, against a formal testing schedule.
This is a management assessment. It gives you an independent, evidence-based view of what is happening and what to fix. It is not an audit or an assurance engagement under Australian auditing and assurance standards.
Eight stages to finding health service revenue
A structured method, not a spot check. Eight stages and five reconciliations reach beyond the ledger to specialist payments and the controls that keep fixes in place. Full-population data is used wherever it exists, so gaps are traced to their root cause, fixed and retested, whatever patient administration, billing or finance systems you run.
- 1EntitlementWhat can be billed, and what must be paid?
- 2AccessIs this patient billable, and to whom?
- 3ActivityWas every billable service captured?
- 4ChargeDid it become a valid charge?
- 5Claim & cashWas payment received in full and on time?
- 6LedgerIs it recorded correctly?
- 7DistributionWas the right amount paid to the right person?
- 8ControlIs it fixed, and staying fixed?
- R1Activity against charges raised
- R2Charges against claims and worklist exits
- R3Claims against funder outcomes and cash
- R4Billing and cash against the ledger
- R5Ledger against specialist payments
Five reconciliations tie the stages together. A generic illustration of the method: it contains no client information, and client process maps are never published.
Case study: patient revenue and specialist remuneration at an Australian health service
An independent view of patient revenue and specialist private practice arrangements, covering the full cycle from first patient contact to the final specialist payment.
- Scope
The patient revenue cycle and specialist private practice arrangements, from registration and referral to the revenue shared with specialists.
- Approach
All eight stages, tested with full-population data: billing trends by service line and item, worklist ageing against claim time limits, accrual roll-forward, and independent bonus recalculation.
- What it produced
A map of the whole revenue cycle with its key controls and gaps, the full-population analysis, and a register of revenue gaps to close.
- Evidence standard
Every finding traced to source data and labelled verified, corrected or awaiting explanation, with a clear view of what the data could and couldn't show.
Evidence you can stand behind
Findings built to withstand the toughest scrutiny, both inside and outside the organisation, with every conclusion traceable to the data behind it.
Data-led, from source
Results rebuilt from raw billing, payroll and payment data, not management reports.
Honest about limits
A clear statement of what the evidence supports, what it doesn't, and what data is missing.
A management assessment, not an audit
A clear understanding of what's happening and what to fix, not a box-ticking exercise.
Every finding is traceable
Each finding links to a register entry, a test and its source data, which audit committees value.
Sensitive by design
What goes in writing is kept separate from what is briefed in person, and what's shareable from what stays confidential.
Fixed fee, sample first
Most engagements start with a scoped diagnostic on a sample of your data, proving the value on your own systems before any follow-on.
AI that meets your security expectations
The latest innovations in AI, with in-house models specially trained for this work and built with data security and integrity at their core, so you can rely on both the quality of your results and the safety of your data.
- Hosted where you need itNova's in-house models can run onshore in Australia, with the model and its location matched to your data classification and policies.
- Your models or oursAlready licensed an AI platform? The work can happen inside your approved tools, wherever they are hosted.
- A human on every decisionA person reviews every decision that affects a claim or a payment.
Who Nova works with
Organisations where money moves through complex rules and systems, from public and private health services to councils, government agencies, charities and not-for-profits. Partnering with the people who own the numbers: CFOs, finance and revenue managers, internal audit, HR and industrial relations teams, boards and audit committees.
Public health services
State and territory health services, public hospitals and health agencies.
Private health providers
Private hospital operators, day procedure centres, and outpatient and specialist clinics.
Government and NGOs
Councils, government agencies, national charities and not-for-profits, in health and well beyond it.
Latest insights
Medicare's one-year bulk-bill claim limit: what to check now
Bulk-billed services rendered from 5 September 2025 must be claimed within a year. The first deadlines passed on 5 September 2026. Here's what to check.
Revenue leakage after a system go-live: where to look
Why items stop billing when an electronic medical record (EMR) or billing system changes, how to spot it early, and a 30/60/90-day check.
One group, clear roles
Nova Consulting is one team working across Australia and New Zealand, through an Australian and a New Zealand company. Nova IT builds and hosts the platforms behind the work. Nova Health is a separate healthcare staffing agency operating only in New Zealand.
Consulting, analysis and build delivery through Nova Consulting Specialists Pty Ltd (AU) and Nova Consulting Limited (NZ).
novaconsulting.co.nzBuilds, owns and hosts the platforms behind Nova's work, including Bill Simple and the revenue tooling.
novait.co.nz
HealthNurses and healthcare assistants for New Zealand public and private hospitals, aged care facilities, hospices, community housing, private homes and more.
novahealth.co.nzStart with a fixed-fee diagnostic
A focused review of a sample of your data, scoped to your priorities and run on your own systems. See the findings, and the value, before committing to anything more.
Talk to the Australian team