The PSR has been given the green light to continue its investigation into Australia’s largest after-hours corporate, which has failed in its latest legal attempt to have the investigation disbanded for good.

The watchdog’s probe into the National Home Doctor Service has been seen as a test case into the extent to which corporate entities can be held legally accountable for inappropriate MBS claims of doctors who have traditionally been seen as solely responsible for their billings.

Back in June 2018, the PSR wrote to the company asking it to provide evidence as to why a PSR committee should not be formed to investigate its activities, pointing out 15 of the company’s doctors had been found guilty of inappropriate Medicare claiming between September 2016 and 2017.

The PSR went on to claim that some of the 1100 doctors who were contracted with the National Home Doctors Service appeared to be in a “employer relationship” and that the company may have “knowingly, recklessly or negligently” encouraged inappropriate practice.