A corporate has taken out full-page newspaper ads warning state MPs that payroll tax demands on GP practices will destroy access to bulk-billed care. The Cornerstone Health–funded campaign…
Senator Jacqui Lambie has put GPs on notice: bulk-bill more patients or “I will be coming for you”. She was responding to a question on ABC Radio…
Tripling Medicare’s bulk-billing incentives was the centrepiece of the Federal Government’s budget sell. According to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, when the funding starts to flow in…
Last night’s federal budget received an unusually warm welcome from GP groups, with the RACGP declaring it a “gamechanger” for general practice. The headline was…
Looking through the media coverage this month, the GP bulk-billing rate was 35%, 46% and 66%, all at the same time. In fact, all the…
Australia’s Medicare billing system is overly complicated, bureaucratic and not meeting the needs of a modern health service, potentially leaking billions of dollars. But claims…
Australia’s health system is under significant pressure. The Labor Government has inherited a system with declining bulk-billing rates for GP visits. These fell from almost…
The founder of a well-known Canberra general practice originally set up to treat HIV patients says she has tried everything to remain open, but the…
GPs are abandoning bulk-billing, walking away from a system that has underfunded the work we’ve done for generations. I don’t object to what is happening.…
A survey of GP practices suggests around a third of those who where offering universal bulk-billing four years ago are now mixed-billing their patients. The…
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