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    Tag: Bulk-billing

    ‘I can’t make doctors do stuff’: Mark Butler insists GPs will choose to bulk-bill all patients

    May 2, 2025

    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)

    May 1, 2025

    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

    April 23, 2025

    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

    April 22, 2025

    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…

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    Federal Government offers $3.8m bailout to save bulk-billing GP practice

    April 17, 2025

    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

    April 9, 2025

    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

    April 2, 2025

    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

    March 28, 2025

    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…

    Revealed: Details of the 12.5% Medicare loading payment for universal bulk-billing

    March 26, 2025

    GP practices will not need to be accredited to receive the Federal Government’s new incentive payments for universal bulk-billing, health officials say. Alongside extending tripled…

    GP’s anger at Labor’s bulk-billing pledge: ‘I went through all the stages of grief’

    March 21, 2025

    An RACGP faculty chair has described going through “all the stages of grief” after the Federal Government decided to expand higher bulk-billing incentives to all…

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    GP’s anger at Labor's bulk-billing pledge: 'I went through all the stages of grief'

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