GPs across the country are desperate to help stop the spread of Covid-19, but lack of Medicare Rebates is crippling their ability to provide telephone care to their patients Dr Suresh Khirwadkar General Practice is currently in a quandary. Apart from the abhorrent...
The last few weeks, medical social media has been ablaze with discussions around the ‘nudge’ letters from The Department of Human Services. If you have missed the uproar and have no idea what it’s all about, it’s basically the government...
It’s all over my social media right now. GPs are up in arms about it. They are threatening to quit, change specialties, or just leave the country. But do you even know what’s got them so riled up? The latest scare tactic, aka ‘nudge’, from the...
It seems that the Australian Government is constantly telling us that Bulk Billing rates are at an all-time high. The numbers they show certainly would seem to suggest that the rates are very high indeed. They claim over 86% GP bulk billing rates, however, the Royal...
What is bulk billing? To talk about bulk billing, we first need to understand what it is. It may sound obvious, but many times I come across people who just don’t know what it really means. Bulk billing is when a registered provider accepts the Medicare rebate...
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