GPs owed $150,000 in locum fees after medical corporate collapses
I-Medical Australia went into liquidation two weeks before GPs were due to receive part of the money they were owed.
A debt-ridden corporate that owed GPs tens of thousands of dollars in locum fees has gone into liquidation, just weeks before it was due to start paying out the money.
The GPs, who were owed between $8800 and $46,200 each from I-Medical Australia, are now likely to be left empty-handed.
I-Medical launched in March 2023, opening bulk-billing clinics in the WA towns of Norseman and Kalgoorlie and offering locums fees of $2000 a day.
Opening the Norseman clinic, touted as the region’s first super clinic, led the Shire of Dundas to terminate its Memorandum of Understanding with GP Dr Graham Rowland, who had asked for extra funding for locum cover.
