GP launches petition to save Medicare phone items from chopping block
It it wrong to deny patients access to Medicare funding based on their choice of technology, says Dr Todd Cameron
A GP has launched an online petition to pressure the Federal Government to abandon its decision to cull more than a dozen Medicare items for phone consults.
From 1 July, virtually all the MBS items for phone-based GP consults will disappear including those for level C and level D consults – claimed more than three million times over the last 12 months.
