Telehealth MBS Quick Guide for July — a rebrand and FY26 rebates
The new financial year brings to an end COVID-19 MBS services, hence AusDoc’s rebranded Telehealth MBS Quick Guide. From 1 July, the remaining MBS items for COVID-19…
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July MBS Quick Guide — New items for chronic disease and menopause management and indexation for FY26
AusDoc’s MBS Quick Guide for July is now available, and includes the new items for chronic disease management and perimenopause and menopause health assessment, plus updated…
Surgeons again top list of professional high earners: ATO data
Surgeons once again top the list as the highest paid professionals in the nation, at least according to the latest Australian Taxation Office data. Doctors…
College pushes for free pertussis vax for all Queenslanders as cases surge
More than 2700 pertussis cases in Queensland this year have prompted the RACGP to call for free vaccinations for all its residents. It says infections…
Top health bureaucrat wants ‘less reviewing, more doing’ from Mark Butler after 70 reviews in three years
The top health bureaucrat wants “more doing, less reviewing” from Mark Butler, according to a memo released under Freedom of Information laws. Department of Health,…
New GLP-1 RA ‘better than semaglutide’ for weight loss in Lancet study
A high dose of a new once-weekly injected GLP-1 receptor agonist has outdone semaglutide for weight loss in a phase III trial. Ecnoglutide, developed in…
Flu quadruples risk of stroke in next 28 days, Aussie meta-analysis finds
Patients with influenza have a 4.7-fold increased risk of stroke in the 28 days since initial infection, according to a new meta-analysis. Published in Cardiovascular…
Hospital purgatory: The patients trapped in acute beds with nowhere else to go
Behind gridlocked EDs, ambulance ramping, angry patients, and frustrated doctors often lies a frail elderly patient stuck in the wrong kind of bed. Dr Chloe…
JAMA and NEJM back $1.5 billion AI ‘that cannot hallucinate’ to answer doctors’ medical questions
AI search engine OpenEvidence has struck deals with JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine to try to give fully cited answers to medical…
RFK Jr’s new ‘expert’ panel votes against the use of influenza vaccines containing thimerosal
The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers have endorsed influenza vaccinations for just about every American — but only if they are free of thimerosal, the…
