Govt expected to act on telehealth ‘free-for-all’
Unfettered access to the temporary items is fragmenting patient care say the GP groups
The Federal Government is expected to curtail the telehealth ‘free-for-all’ by changing the emergency telehealth items before they end in September.
Last week, the AMA said unfettered access to the items was resulting in corporates marketing bulk-billed telehealth care despite having no physical practice and no link to patients’ GPs.
“In my mind you can’t even call this general practice because it is so limited in what it can do,” said AMA President Dr Tony Bartone.
He asked Minister for Health Greg Hunt to intervene.
