bulk billing
Primary care needs more than money
Declining bulk billing rates suggest the government needs to look at alternatives to throwing money at GPs to boost access to primary care, a Guild leader says Bulk billing incentives …
Price must be right to bulk bill
Adequate funding must be secured before pharmacists would be willing to provide bulk billed services If pharmacists are to step into the breach and provide services GPs “won’t bulk bill …
$3.5b unlikely to arrest decline in bulk billing
GPs who have abandoned bulk billing are unlikely to be lured back by the government’s $3.5 billion incentive package Incentives designed to boost bulk billing rates are likely to be …
Keeping on top of things
Record bulk billing rates and massive telehealth take-up a sign of a successful COVID strategy: Minister says Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has highlighted new data showing record GP bulk …
Pharmacists can step in: Twomey
The cost of GP visits highlights the need for pharmacies to offer a minor ailments service, says the Guild Public hearings into Queensland’s inquiry into the establishment of a Pharmacy …
Bulk billing figures ‘a complete con-job’, says Labor
A new report on bulk billing has seen the Health Minister claim record rates, while Labor says the cost of health care is spiralling out of control The report, from …
GPs refuse care due to cost
Bulk-billing doctors are leaving rural areas and refusing longer appointments for complex patients, the RACGP says Dr Bastian Seidel, president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, has told …