GPs to lose access to dozens of MBS phone items
Almost all MBS telephone items will be scrapped, with just two remaining
GPs are about to lose access to more than two dozen MBS items funding telephone consults as part of the Federal Government’s ‘post-pandemic’ telehealth revamp.
On Sunday,Minister for Health Greg Hunt announced that telehealth funding would remain in place until the end of December.
But he made no mention of plans to reconfigure or remove some of the existing telehealth items.
Australian Doctor has since discovered that the telephone items will be scrapped from 1 July, with just two remaining covering calls lasting up to six minutes and calls of six minutes or longer.
