MBS Review: Push for GPs to jump through rebates hoop for imaging

This story has been updated. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists would like to note that the decision support app cited in the MBS Review Taskforce report – an app called Imaging CDRs – was designed as an educational tool to support junior doctors.
GPs will be forced to use decision-support software before ordering MBS-funded imaging under the latest proposal from the MBS Review Taskforce to curb over-testing.
The task force’s diagnostic medicine committee says the extra step for doctors should be applied to “selected” imaging MBS items and rolled out within two years.
The decision-support software would become a “piece of critical health infrastructure” that could integrate with existing IT systems, it said.