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    Tag: Australian Medical Association (AMA)

    Medicinal cannabis.

    AMA demands suspension of high-THC medicinal cannabis

    May 26, 2025

    Doctors have “no reasonable justification” for prescribing medicinal cannabis that is 98% tetrahydrocannabinol, says the AMA, which wants these drugs suspended from the Special Access…

    Breaking news: Govt announces new rebates for MBS care plan items

    May 23, 2025

    The Federal Government has finally revealed that writing up or reviewing a chronic disease care plan will attract a rebate of $156.55 under its long-delayed…

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. AAP.

    Will Albo’s dreams of mass bulk-billing spell doom for the GP patient enrolment scheme?

    May 15, 2025

    Last year, Mark Butler told an audience of GPs that MyMedicare had finally provided the “foundations of an enduring system” after so many pilots for patients…

    Should Medicare fund consults when a doctor or patient is overseas?

    May 1, 2025

    The AMA is open to Medicare rule changes to allow claims while a doctor or patient is overseas but says the risk is telehealth clinics…

    AMA calls for fresh consultation with doctors over looming restrictions to vitamin B12 test rebates

    April 24, 2025

    Whoever wins the 3 May federal election should delay and re-consult on the incoming restrictions on Medicare rebates for vitamin B12 and urine tests, the…

    ‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down’: Dr Mukesh Haikerwal (quietly) retires from general practice

    April 7, 2025

    A week into retirement Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is making all the right noises. One of Australia’s best-known GPs, the irrepressible doctor is talking holidays, movies, more…

    Doctors and the stupid stuff — new campaign targets most ridiculous admin demands

    March 27, 2025

    The spectacle of doctors being dragged away from patients to order office supplies and geriatricians having to undergo a working-with-children check are being targeted in…

    Nurses target PBS funding for when they start prescribing S4 and S8 drugs later this year

    March 19, 2025

    Nursing groups are already bidding for PBS subsidies after health ministers decided to let RNs prescribe S4 and S8 drugs, starting this year. In an…

    We will publish the fees each individual specialist is charging: Mark Butler’s pledge

    March 17, 2025

    A re-elected Labor Government will publish the fees that individual non-GP specialists are charging for common services, Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler…

    Clinical independence under threat from ‘vertically integrated’ cannabis companies, doctors tell Mark Butler

    February 5, 2025

    Doctor and pharmacy groups have suggested banning medicinal cannabis companies from simultaneously owning clinics and dispensaries, saying doctors’ independence is at stake. AMA Queensland and…

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