Call to make Govt’s medical fee website ‘opt-out only’ for specialists

As of 2024, the website listed fees for 20 doctors.
Dr Rachel David (PhD). Photo: Newspix.

Private health insurers want the Federal Government’s $24 million specialist fee website to go opt-out only, forcing doctors to publish their fees unless they proactively remove their names.

It is the latest salvo in a months-long public fight between health fund lobby group Private Healthcare Australia and private hospital specialists over what the health funds claim are inflated specialist fees.