Another Medicare muddle: ‘Changes to melanoma excision items badly communicated’
The new skin excision MBS items that appeared yesterday can no doubt function as a useful case study for those with little insight who have…
Tag: MBS
Doctors defrauding Medicare is not the problem – it’s Medicare itself
Just after the media blow-up on what is, taken at face value, the biggest fraud scandal in the nation’s history, a behind-the-scenes bureaucrat named Brett…
Rural loading on psychiatry telehealth rebates to return
The 50% loading on Medicare rebates for telehealth in rural areas will return on 1 November, the Federal Government has announced. Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler…
Crisis summit: AMA says patient enrolment will help fix GP woes
The AMA has renewed its push for voluntary patient enrolment as part of its campaign to ‘modernise Medicare’ and reduce pressure on GPs. Its seven-point…
Govt cracks down on GP telephone consults
The so-called 30/20 rule limiting GP telephone consultations is finally being rolled out. Under the rule, any GP who claims 30 or more relevant telephone attendance…
Why hundreds of GPs aren’t billing the mental health items with higher rebates
'It’s an act of kindness on the part of GPs that’s common,' says Dr Cathy Andronis.
The forgotten MBS Taskforce master plan to reduce pointless GP imaging rises again
The RACGP is to test new decision support GP software to find out if it works.
So why are MBS rebates for longer mental health consults lower than a normal level C?
We have asked the new Health Minister whether he will end this MBS oddity.
Govt warns GPs to bill ‘most relevant’ mental health item even if it pays less
A survey suggests many GPs are claiming standard consult items for mental health care.
GPs don’t need to be present when nurses vaccinate – the MBS must change
I have a very simple message for the federal Department of Health and Aged Care: primary healthcare nurses are more than capable of vaccinating patients…
