GPs have great power – why don’t we use it?
I was very heartened by the comments to my recent article, ‘The faux Medicare rort scandal is a political move to coerce and control doctors’.…
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‘So I have a life-threatening condition?’: The struggle to be a good GP under Medicare
The time had arrived for a consult I was dreading. The unsuspecting patient walked in smiling. I would deliver news that would change her life. She…
A bidding war? Why GP registrars are being offered $30,000 in cash
The Victorian Government’s pledge to fund $20 pharmacist consultations yesterday overshadowed significant other news. Unusually, it was good news for GPs. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and…
Medicare bewilderment making GPs ‘hesitant’ to bill chronic disease items to treat long COVID
The lack of clarity on whether MBS items for chronic disease management can be claimed for treating long COVID has become another GP headache, the RACGP…
Medicare’s indexation fail has stripped GP patients of some $8.6 billion: AMA
Successive governments should have paid out billions more in rebates for level B consultations over the past 30 years by linking indexation to wage growth…
We’ve been left hung out to dry – now we must unpeg ourselves
Media conjuring has pitted a population – the majority of whom are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living – against its…
Another Medicare muddle: ‘Changes to melanoma excision items badly communicated’
The new skin excision MBS items that appeared yesterday can no doubt function as a useful case study for those with little insight who have…
Doctors defrauding Medicare is not the problem – it’s Medicare itself
Just after the media blow-up on what is, taken at face value, the biggest fraud scandal in the nation’s history, a behind-the-scenes bureaucrat named Brett…
Rural loading on psychiatry telehealth rebates to return
The 50% loading on Medicare rebates for telehealth in rural areas will return on 1 November, the Federal Government has announced. Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler…
Crisis summit: AMA says patient enrolment will help fix GP woes
The AMA has renewed its push for voluntary patient enrolment as part of its campaign to ‘modernise Medicare’ and reduce pressure on GPs. Its seven-point…
