Medicare billing experts: The story of a $600,000 GP defamation stoush
A legal case has shone a spotlight on courses teaching Medicare billing to doctors
Back in September 2017, Dr Rajan Anand was being called a scumbag.
The Adelaide GP had just begun a new business called ProMBS, offering doctors advice on how best to maximise their Medicare income.
His workshops cost up to $900 to attend, with the audience told of a method he had devised called ‘combination billing’.
As part of the session, he would discuss 76 patient consult scenarios and then suggest ways through the semantic labyrinths of the MBS book to ensure doctors were compensated for the work done.
