Medicare bewilderment making GPs ‘hesitant’ to bill chronic disease items to treat long COVID
AskMBS had failed to give GPs 'surety', said Professor Karen Price
The lack of clarity on whether MBS items for chronic disease management can be claimed for treating long COVID has become another GP headache, the RACGP says.
College president Adjunct Professor Karen Price said “the fiendishly complex Medicare system” was interfering with GP care for patients with long COVID — an estimated 500,000 patients over the course of the pandemic so far.