The Minister for Health and Aged Care has batted away GPs’ arguments that tripled bulk-billing incentives for all patients will not mean a wholesale shift…
The AMA is open to Medicare rule changes to allow claims while a doctor or patient is overseas but says the risk is telehealth clinics…
More than 5000 GPs are set to receive letters warning them about billing Medicare when either they or their patient is abroad, the RACGP says.…
Whoever wins the 3 May federal election should delay and re-consult on the incoming restrictions on Medicare rebates for vitamin B12 and urine tests, the…
Asked if he would stake his prime ministership on increasing GP bulk-billing, Anthony Albanese has committed “absolutely”. Nine political editor Charles Croucher laid down the…
The Federal Government has agreed to lift the ban on private health insurers funding naturopathy, yoga, Western herbal medicine and tai chi, says the Minister…
This is the first in a two-part federal election series. Next week we’ll look at what Mark Butler, the Minister for Health and Aged Care,…
GPs used 60-day prescribing for fewer than 30% of eligible scripts in the policy’s first year, analysis of PBS data has found. The Federal Government…
A long-delayed review of the ban on private health insurers funding 16 alternative therapies has recommended lifting the ban for seven of them. The ban…
Half of patients who went to one of the Federal Government’s urgent care clinics used it as an alternative to general practice rather than ED,…
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