Bulk-billing incentives to rise for 12,000 GPs
Rebates will increase based on levels on remoteness under reforms the government claims will encourage doctors to leave their 'salubrious suburbs'
Bulk-billing incentives will increase next January for 12,000 rural GPs.
The changes, announced at the weekend, are being sold by the Federal Government as a drawcard for doctors to work in the bush rather than in “salubrious suburbs”.