Medicare ‘nudge’ tactics target acupuncture
Assistance at surgical operations also in department's sights
Acupuncture and assistance at surgical operations are the latest targets of the Department of Health’s campaign to “nudge” GPs’ Medicare billing.
Over the past two years, tens of thousands of threats have been sent to GPs over alleged failures in their prescribing of antibiotics and opioids or their billing for skin cancer excisions.
