GP’s anger at Labor’s bulk-billing pledge: ‘I went through all the stages of grief’
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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‘I knew there was 34cm of water in the practice because of the height chart’: GPs vs Cyclone Alfred
Doctors thought on Saturday that Cyclone Alfred had spared the GP practices of Hervey Bay, north of Brisbane. But in Sunday’s early hours, everything changed.…
‘Bulk-billing is not fast medicine’: Why this corporate CEO believes the new incentives are necessary
While the Prime Minister’s big announcement of an $8.5 billion cash injection to get GPs to bulk-bill 90% of their patients has not landed well…
Why this GP (still) supports Mark Butler’s $1 billion urgent care centres
Associate Professor John Adie knows his enthusiastic support for the Federal Government’s urgent care centres is at odds with many GPs, as well as the…
Doctor’s defamation case against ‘nasty’ online reviews fails
A respiratory physician has lost a defamation claim over a targeted campaign of negative reviews after a court found insufficient evidence that the reviews had…
GP practices will get 28-day warning before accreditation visits under watchdog’s proposal
Assessments with one month of notice or an extended accreditation cycle with at least one mid-cycle review are the two main options in a proposed…
So are GPs going to embrace mass bulk-billing? The AusDoc survey results
“These politicians are promising what they can’t promise!” This is the quote from Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price this week. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling…
March into an MBS rebrand — AusDoc’s Quick Guide to video, phone and COVID-19 items
From 1 March, existing MBS ‘telehealth’ attendance items will be referred to as ‘video’ items. The MBS item numbers, descriptors and rebates remain otherwise the same,…
March MBS Quick Guide — ready for download
AusDoc’s MBS Quick Guide for March is now available. Use this quick guide as a handy reference for in-practice billing needs for some of the most…
‘Old boot soup to the starving masses of GPs’: What a former RACGP president thinks of the billions for universal bulk-billing
Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price is the RACGP president who four years ago urged GPs to abandon universal bulk-billing given the paucity of Medicare rebates…
