After 44 years as a GP, Dr Diane Faulkner-Hill needs the age pension to survive
Like most pensioners, Dr Diane Faulkner-Hill watches every cent in her account. Despite working 44 years in general practice, she rarely had money for superannuation…
Tag: Bulk-billing
Will Albo’s dreams of mass bulk-billing spell doom for the GP patient enrolment scheme?
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…
‘I can’t make doctors do stuff’: Mark Butler insists GPs will choose to bulk-bill all patients
The Minister for Health and Aged Care has batted away GPs’ arguments that tripled bulk-billing incentives for all patients will not mean a wholesale shift…
How Mark Butler’s bulk-billing calculations stack up (or not)
Politically, releasing 10 pages of modelling purporting to show how the expansion of bulk-billing incentives to all Australians would make mass bulk-billing profitable was a…
Anthony Albanese ‘stakes his prime ministership’ on GPs bulk-billing more
Asked if he would stake his prime ministership on increasing GP bulk-billing, Anthony Albanese has committed “absolutely”. Nine political editor Charles Croucher laid down the…
GPs who universally bulk-bill will earn $404,000 a year under new incentives, Mark Butler claims
Bulk-billing incentives for non-concession card holders will mean GPs at universally bulk-billing city practices will take home $403,805 a year, $5000 more than mixed billing GPs, the…
Federal Government offers $3.8m bailout to save bulk-billing GP practice
The high-profile Canberra practice placed in voluntary administration two weeks ago will reopen, at least in the short term, under a deal with an unnamed private operator.…
Expecting GPs to bulk-bill is absurd: It’s like asking hairdressers to pay for cutting hair
I’m just starting out in general practice, but I’m already exhausted with politicians making promises that aren’t theirs to make and weighing in on issues…
Albanese and Dutton scrub up for a Medicare face-off, but there’s more at stake in this election
With the first full week of the election campaign health has already become a key battleground for votes alongside tackling cost-of-living pressures. Prime Minister Anthony…
Dr Bek Hoffman on privately billing, helping domestic violence survivors and why the two are linked
What does free healthcare for domestic violence victims have to do with GP fees? GP Dr Bek Hoffman described “going through all the stages of…
