Telehealth MBS Quick Guide for July – FY25 rebates and updates
The new financial year brings indexation of rebates and a raft of changes to items and exemptions to AusDoc’s Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS Items Quick Guide From…
Tag: Coronavirus
MBS telehealth existing relationship exemption for patients with COVID-19 gets the chop
Patients with COVID-19 will be restricted to telehealth consultations with their regular practice from 1 July after Medicare scraps their exemption to the existing relationship…
Chills and headaches after a COVID-19 vax a good sign for immunity: study
Patients who report headache, fatigue or fever after their COVID-19 shot may be heartened by findings that show the presence of post-vaccination symptoms may mean…
What means did the Grim Reaper employ for Australians in 2022?
Death (and taxes) come to us all. But what returns us to our ultimate maker is always a source of interest. This week saw the…
Safe to stop anticoagulants three months after VTE linked to COVID-19, study suggests
Long-term anticoagulation may be unnecessary in patients with COVID-19-associated VTE, with doctors reporting low rates of recurrence after stopping therapy. Their study of 1100 adults…
June edition: quick guide to Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items
AusDoc’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide for June is now available. Use this quick reference day-to-day as a practical prompt for telehealth and COVID-19…
It felt like 19th century medicine — and I liked it
Recently, I had a day where I actually felt like I was practising medicine. Not that day-to-day general practice isn’t medicine, it’s just that the…
GP practice error in recording a child’s weight may have resulted in his death 17 years later: UK coroner
Alex Reid died in 2021 from COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. It was just six weeks after his second dose of…
Long-term loss of smell, but not taste, common after COVID-19: study
Olfactory dysfunction, especially for smell, is more common in individuals with prior COVID-19 versus individuals with no history of infection, with deficits varying by SARS-CoV-2…
AstraZeneca makes ‘business decision’ to pull COVID-19 vaccine from Australia and EU
The TGA has withdrawn approval for COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria on the request of its sponsor, AstraZeneca. It finally closes a complex and controversial chapter in…
