‘Bulk-billing is untenable’: 53% of GP practices planning fee hikes
More than half of GP practices plan to reduce bulk-billing and increase gap fees this year, according to the Commonwealth Bank’s annual report on general…
Tag: Bulk-billing
GPs will be extinct by the time I retire — so who will provide my healthcare?
They say you should never kick a person when they’re down. However, this seems to carry no weight when the person down is an entire…
I just retired as a GP, but did I go too soon?
In a Medical Observer opinion piece last year (‘As my career as a GP comes to an end, I wonder, ‘Have I been a mug?’),…
Medicare crisis: Is tripling bulk-billing incentives a fix?
What makes a government buckle? At the weekend, newspapers were running front-page headlines about the bulk-billing crisis. Some of it was old news because the…
‘I’ve just spent $2000 on my dog’: Your stories of patients demanding bulk-billed care
When patients say they should be bulk-billed, what reasons do they give? Not all are facing financial hardship, it seems. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling…
‘I’m saving for a cruise’: Patient logic on why GPs should bulk-bill
The shift away from universal bulk-billing has highlighted the tricky process of GPs deciding when to charge and when to bulk-bill, often based on limited…
GPs bulk-billed five million fewer standard consults last year
GPs conducted five million fewer bulk-billed standard consultations in 2021/22 compared with the previous financial year as the specialty reacted to the chronic inadequacies of…
5 things patients say that have me itching to hit the eject button
General practice is a funny old game, full of its own nuances. Despite the numerous practice role-plays in anticipation of — and beyond — the…
Just 40% of practices bulk-bill all patients, says founder of GP fee website
Fewer than half of metro practices still offer universal bulk-billing, including just 30% of practices in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, new figures suggest. The numbers are from Cleanbill,…
Two-thirds of patients earning more than $100,000 a year still bulk-billed
More than 60% of patients on six-figure salaries were bulk-billed at their last GP consultation, according to a new survey from NAB. The figures add to the…
