‘Treat the cause of high specialist fees, not the symptoms,’ says RACP president
The college responds to a new Grattan Institute report taking aim at 'extreme fee chargers'.
The physicians’ college says high specialist costs are a symptom of an unhealthy system but is yet to respond on whether greedy specialists are partly to blame.
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has issued a media release following the publication of a new Grattan Institute report this week that takes aim at “extreme fee chargers” — specialists whose fees are typically three times the average MBS schedule fee.
