GPs in outer suburbs to lose out on rebates
A medium-size practice could lose more than $48k a year in funding
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Thousands of GPs working in outer suburbs and regional towns will see rebates from bulk-billing incentives drop by a third under a looming Medicare shake-up.
There is growing disquiet about the financial hit on doctors whose practices will be reclassified as metropolitan from January after changes to the rural classification system.