Rural GPs told to pay back Medicare
30th April 2012
By Paul Smith
Medicare is taking back thousands of dollars in rural incentives from doctors, which were apparently paid as the result of a bureaucratic bungle.
Dr Cynthia Jackson and her partner, both Queensland GPs, have been told by Medicare it has deducted $11,000 from the rural incentive payments they were due to get this year, after they were “overpaid” last year.
And Dr Les Wollard, a rural doctor from Moree in NSW, has been told to pay back $9,000 after the money was mistakenly paid to him last year. All the other doctors in the town also received letters