‘Treat the cause of high specialist fees, not the symptoms,’ says RACP president
The physicians’ college says high specialist costs are a symptom of an unhealthy system but is yet to respond on whether greedy specialists are partly…
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GPs paid more than anaesthetists for hospital locum jobs — see the list
GPs rank seventh out of 15 specialties for hospital locum pay rates, averaging $234 an hour, an agency has found. Data on more than 4500…
Practice nurses say MBS care plan changes unlikely to trigger job losses
Medicare’s revamped care plan items have created anxiety for nurses but are unlikely to trigger job losses, the practice nurse association says. On 1 July,…
1100 GPs to receive ‘early intervention letters’ detailing their overseas Medicare claims
The latest Medicare compliance campaign includes 1100 “early intervention letters” showing GPs details of MBS claims they allegedly lodged while outside Australia, the RACGP says.…
MBS rebates in June: The Quick Guide
AusDoc’s MBS Quick Guide for June is now available. Use this quick guide as a handy reference for in-practice billing needs for some of the most…
June’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS Quick Guide — ready for download
Get the most important MBS telehealth and COVID-19 items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s June Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to routine attendance…
General practice is supposedly dying, so why are investors stalking GP clinics?
If GP corporates run on tiny profit margins, why do they sell for hundreds of millions of dollars? “It’s a good question because it doesn’t…
GP builds AI that suggests the Medicare items that boost billings
A GP has built an AI scribe that suggests Medicare items for GPs to claim in real time as it drafts medical notes based on…
Universal bulk-billing incentive risks ‘tearing GP practices apart’
Payments tied to practice-wide universal bulk-billing risk setting GPs “at one another’s throats”, a prominent GP warns. The upcoming 12.5% loading payment if GPs at…
‘I’m a healer, not a dealer!’: GP on her dark times working for a medicinal cannabis telehealth clinic
Revelations that AHPRA knows of eight doctors who have collectively written 80,000 scripts for category 5 THC medicinal cannabis once again raise the obvious question.…
