An official review has found no evidence to support the claim that inappropriate billing costs Medicare $8 billion a year, the Minister for Health says. The review, done internally by the Department of Health and Aged Care, was a response…
Telehealth clinics churning out scripts for expensive PBS-funded medicines are worrying the Professional Services Review far more than rare instances of fraud, the watchdog says. …
Like many of my colleagues, I couldn’t sleep on Monday night after watching the ABC’s 7.30 report. I was trying to make sense of the articles and newspaper reports claiming…
Dr Margaret Faux says she is scared to leave her house after a backlash to her dramatic allegation that taxpayers are losing $8 billion a…
The headlines that $8 billion in Medicare claims are fraudulent are classic cases of fake news. The evidence for this dramatic accusation was from a…
Federal Minister for Health Mark Butler says media allegations that $8 billion in Medicare funding is rorted or wasted are “out of whack” with all…
Doctors have been accused of rorting $8 billion annually from Medicare in a series of front-page news stories, leading the Federal Government to announce a…
Professor Julie Quinlivan is stepping down after five years at the helm.
Amendments currently before federal Parliament would expand the Medicare watchdog's powers.
But he can keep working after the tribunal found he had already been heavily sanctioned by the PSR and repaid Medicare $357,000.
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