Medicare should streamline health assessment items, not expand them: AMA
GPs billed Medicare for 1.3 million health assessments in 2023.
The AMA has backed a single set of criteria for patients to access Medicare health assessments for chronic disease, diabetes and heart health checks.
The Department of Health and Aged Care is reviewing the six health assessment MBS items, which GPs claimed 1.3 million times last year, for $274 million in rebates.
