GPs vs specialists and the (alleged) initial consult Medicare rort
The debate on the uses and alleged abuses of the initial specialist consult MBS item have been long-running. Last week Dr Craig Lilienthal entered the fray once in his AusDoc opinion article.
“I am very embarrassed — nay, pissed off — when I hear that some of the specialists to whom I refer patients often charge initial consultation fees when following up patients for established conditions,” he wrote.
