GPs and pathologists clash over Medicare funding for CV test
The RACGP has criticised a push for MBS-funded lipoprotein(a) testing to identify patients at elevated risk of heart disease, warning the proposal could be outdated…
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Govt streamlines COVID-19 vax rebates
Rebates for COVID-19 vaccine assessments will no longer be tiered by dose number as the Federal Government attempts to cut down the number of MBS items.…
Policymakers are dumb: A GP’s real world guide to the mystifications of a Level B consult
The MBS is a source of complete mystification for the profession. But instead of just whinge, whinge, whingeing, I would like to do my part…
Health department targets GPs over urgent after-hours MBS claims
A nudge letter is on the way to GPs who frequently use urgent after-hours items, as part of a new Department of Health and Aged…
GPs have great power – why don’t we use it?
I was very heartened by the comments to my recent article, ‘The faux Medicare rort scandal is a political move to coerce and control doctors’.…
‘So I have a life-threatening condition?’: The struggle to be a good GP under Medicare
The time had arrived for a consult I was dreading. The unsuspecting patient walked in smiling. I would deliver news that would change her life. She…
A bidding war? Why GP registrars are being offered $30,000 in cash
The Victorian Government’s pledge to fund $20 pharmacist consultations yesterday overshadowed significant other news. Unusually, it was good news for GPs. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and…
Medicare bewilderment making GPs ‘hesitant’ to bill chronic disease items to treat long COVID
The lack of clarity on whether MBS items for chronic disease management can be claimed for treating long COVID has become another GP headache, the RACGP…
Medicare’s indexation fail has stripped GP patients of some $8.6 billion: AMA
Successive governments should have paid out billions more in rebates for level B consultations over the past 30 years by linking indexation to wage growth…
We’ve been left hung out to dry – now we must unpeg ourselves
Media conjuring has pitted a population – the majority of whom are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living – against its…
