Does bulk-billing help the vulnerable patients who really need it?
Mark Butler promised to publish more detailed bulk-billing figures.
AusDoc once dubbed the bulk-billing rate of a level B GP consultation one of Australia’s greatest medical mysteries.Â
It was the standard consult and it was being claimed around 90 million times a year – surely it offered some insight into the success or failure of Federal Government policy?
So why was it unknown?
To give the Department of Health and Aged Care credit, we no longer have to use freedom of information laws to prise the figures from its grasp.
