Paperwork headaches with $300 aged care incentive mean GPs ‘paid less to do more’
Signing up aged care patients to MyMedicare can be onerous, GPs say.
Fewer than a third of eligible patients are registered for the new aged care incentive, with GPs blaming the admin burden for undermining enrolment.
Services Australia figures show that GPs enrolled 62,329 aged care residents during the incentive’s first quarter, which ended on 30 September.
The Federal Government had indicated that almost 200,000 patients were eligible.
AMA president Dr Danielle McMullen said GP practices had struggled or taken significant time to enrol their aged care patients in MyMedicare — a requirement to access the new incentive.
