Coronavirus: Specialists welcome lifting of telehealth restrictions

Doctors aged 70 and over can now offer MBS-funded video consults to any patient
Geir O'Rourke
Professor Brendan Murphy
Professor Brendan Murphy.

Specialists deemed at risk of COVID-19 will have access to Medicare funding for phone or video consults — regardless of whether they have been ordered into isolation.

Temporary items for specialist video and telephone consultations were introduced earlier this month.