Paperwork headaches with $300 aged care incentive mean GPs ‘paid less to do more’

Signing up aged care patients to MyMedicare can be onerous, GPs say.
Dr Danielle McMullen.

Fewer than a third of eligible patients are registered for the new aged care incentive, with GPs blaming the admin burden for undermining enrolment.

Services Australia figures show that GPs enrolled 62,329 aged care residents during the incentive’s first quarter, which ended on 30 September.