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    Tag: business of medicine

    Dr Jonathan 'Casey' Going.

    GP builds AI that suggests the Medicare items that boost billings

    May 29, 2025

    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…

    Dr Bruce Willett.

    Universal bulk-billing incentive risks ‘tearing GP practices apart’

    May 28, 2025

    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

    May 27, 2025

    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.…

    Dr John Deery.

    ‘The govt giveth with one hand and it taketh away’: GPs respond to Medicare’s new $157 care plan items

    May 26, 2025

    The Federal Government has finally unveiled its new Medicare rebates for chronic disease care plans: From July, writing or reviewing a care plan will both…

    Breaking news: Govt announces new rebates for MBS care plan items

    May 23, 2025

    The Federal Government has finally revealed that writing up or reviewing a chronic disease care plan will attract a rebate of $156.55 under its long-delayed…

    Mark Butler. Twitter.

    Higher rebates for specialist attendances ‘off the table’ despite $141 average gap fee

    May 23, 2025

    The Minister for Health and Aged Care has shot down a suggestion he could raise rebates for non-GP specialists to stop out-of-pocket costs spiralling further…

    Pharmacists will become ‘doctors’ with a one-year online master’s degree — this is how

    May 22, 2025

    Pharmacists got the news last year that they would be able to call themselves ‘doctors’ after completing a new extended master’s degree. They are not…

    Medical Board of Australia chair Dr Susan O'Dwyer.

    Medical board chair’s message to medicinal cannabis doctors: ‘Patient demand is not an indication’ 

    May 21, 2025

    Doctors prescribing medicinal cannabis are being urged to think about differential diagnoses, monitoring and exit plans after revelations that 441,000 patients started high-THC cannabis over…

    After 44 years as a GP, Dr Diane Faulkner-Hill needs the age pension to survive

    May 20, 2025

    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…

    ‘Their experience was like the bud shops of Amsterdam’: GP flooded with recreational cannabis users asking for scripts

    May 16, 2025

    A few years ago, Dr Nic Giummarra felt he could make a real difference in his patients’ lives for the first time. A GP on…

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    'Their experience was like the bud shops of Amsterdam': GP flooded with recreational cannabis users asking for scripts

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