Telehealth and COVID-19 items — MBS Quick Guide for May
Get the most important MBS telehealth and COVID-19 items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s May Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to routine attendance…
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Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items — your April Quick Guide
Get the most important MBS telehealth and COVID-19 items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s April Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to routine attendance…
Patient death at hospital that had no doctors for four days ‘wholly preventable’: coroner
A patient has died at a hospital with no doctors after a telehealth GP prescribed aspirin without knowing of his NSAID hypersensitivity, a coroner has…
March into an MBS rebrand — AusDoc’s Quick Guide to video, phone and COVID-19 items
From 1 March, existing MBS ‘telehealth’ attendance items will be referred to as ‘video’ items. The MBS item numbers, descriptors and rebates remain otherwise the same,…
February’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS Quick Guide — ready for download
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s February telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items is…
Medicare to clamp down on telehealth claims by nurse practitioners
The Federal Government is finally planning to enforce Medicare’s ‘existing relationship’ telehealth rule for nurse practitioners, but not until November. The rule means that a…
For me, telehealth is a revelation – sometimes it’s better than seeing patients in person
My move into emergency telemedicine, after decades of public hospital practice, has been a revelation. I like to call this type of practice ‘community emergency…
Telehealth is bullshit — I’m over patients thinking all consults can be done over the phone
I remember one of my first days of seeing patients by telehealth, right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. The scary new coronavirus…
Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items: January’s Quick Guide
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s January telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items is…
Telehealth corporate finds its rate of serious clinical errors ‘appears a little high’
This story has been updated. The findings analysed audited consults including all consultations that an algorithm specifically identified as potential high-risk or critical errors, as…
