Govt PIP review suggests MyMedicare should be mandatory for practices to access cash incentives
The draft also calls for an independent body to advise on MBS rebates.
GP practices should have to send data to a new health pricing authority and join MyMedicare to access the practice incentive payments, a Federal Government consultation paper suggests.
The Review of General Practice Incentives says both the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) and Workforce Incentive Program payments, worth over $500 million a year to general practice, should be replaced by a “new payment architecture”.
