Govt sends early warning letters to 146 GPs on brink of 80/20 rule breaches
Almost 150 GPs about to breach the 80/20 rule are receiving early warning letters from the Department of Health and Aged Care, the RACGP says.…
Tag: PSR (Professional Services Review)
GP wins legal battle against PSR over demand for 25 years of patient records
A judge has stopped the PSR demanding up to 25 years’ worth of records from a GP whose Medicare claims for a one-year period are…
GP who treated up to nine acupuncture patients at once repays $360,000 in Medicare rebates
A GP has repaid $360,000 in Medicare claims for acupuncture after a review found he had treated up to nine patients at the same time.…
Doctors not ‘coerced’ by PSR to pay back rebates, review finds
A review of the PSR’s repayment agreements with health practitioners has rejected claims that the system is coercive. The government-commissioned review, led by Emeritus Professor…
Being hauled before the PSR is bad — but there are other watchdogs with a nastier bite
In the Sydney Morning Herald of 5 November last year, reporter Adele Ferguson referred darkly to “strong links” between the Professional Services Review and the AMA. These…
GP admits inappropriate Medicare claims for patients ‘in imminent danger of death’
A GP has paid back $170,000 in Medicare claims for treating patients “in imminent danger of death”, and various aged care and skin excision items.…
Is the PSR a puppet of the medical profession?
Amid the media rage about doctors making merry with Medicare last year was concern that the watchdog dealing with the miscreants — the Professional Services…
‘Completely validated’: Newspapers still defending $8 billion GP rort claims
The newspapers that said doctors were rorting billions from Medicare are digging in despite a government-funded review finding that most non-compliance was accidental rather than fraud. …
After-hours doctor fails in legal bid to overturn PSR’s $460,000 payback demand
An after-hours doctor who successfully challenged a Professional Services Review order that he repay $460,000 in misclaimed Medicare rebates has been reordered to pay up…
Former AMA presidential candidate to fight the PSR in his new role
The Australian Health Practitioners Advisory Solutions was set up by Dr Anchita Karmakar two years ago following her well-publicised battles with the PSR. The lobby…
