PIP payments fall $1.5 million after govt imposes ‘unfair’ telehealth rule
The Federal Government is excluding telehealth consults from its calculations
GP practices are losing income from the $350 million Practice Incentives Program because health officials are “underestimating” their patient load by ignoring consults they are doing via telehealth.
Under the system, the Department of Health calculates a number of the incentives based on patient load measured in Standardised Whole Patient Equivalents (SWPEs).
