MyMedicare: What GPs must do to claim $300 aged care incentive
GPs will be able to delegate some of the visits to registrars, nurses or GP colleagues from the same practice.
GPs must provide an aged care patient eight consultations a year, plus two care planning services, to receive the new $300 aged care incentive under MyMedicare.
The incentive, scheduled to start in August, also pays $130 to the GP’s practice for each enrolled patient meeting these criteria.
The Department of Health and Aged Care has confirmed that GPs will have to provide two consultations to an aged care patient per quarter, in different months, to benefit.
However, one of these consultations in the quarter can be delegated to a GP colleague, registrar, practice nurse or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner from the same GP practice.
