Political decisions to increase GP ‘workforce priority’ areas branded a serious policy failure
The review said 'blanket' rules based on a practice's remoteness should not determine IMGs' Medicare access.
Automatic access to Medicare for IMGs working outside metropolitan cities should be scrapped, a Federal Government review has concluded.
It comes two years after the Federal Government radically extended the number of communities classified as a Distribution Priority Area (DPA), which allowed GP practices in these communities to recruit IMG doctors who could bill Medicare.
