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Changes to MBS items for knee imaging: What GPs should know

Changes to MBS items for knee imaging: What GPs should know

Associate Professor Mark Morgan, GP and member of the Diagnostic Medicine Clinical Committee of the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review Taskforce, writes for newsGP about changes to MBS items for knee imaging.


Government ignores recommendations from pharmacy review

Government ignores recommendations from pharmacy review

The RACGP is disappointed at the ‘squandered opportunity’ for the Federal Government to make necessary reforms to the pharmacy sector.


What the new after-hours rebates mean for GPs

What the new after-hours rebates mean for GPs

The Federal Government’s recent changes to Medicare rebates are designed to better reflect the qualifications of doctors providing urgent after-hours care.


RACGP welcomes changes to after-hours care rebates

RACGP welcomes changes to after-hours care rebates

President Dr Bastian Seidel has applauded Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt for heeding the RACGP’s concerns and implementing evidence-based adjustments to after-hours Medicare rebates.


After-hours care not value for money

After-hours care not value for money

The current structure of after-hours healthcare provision in Australia ‘supports the provision of comparatively low-value medical care and does not represent value for money for the taxpayer’, the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce has found in its final report.
 


After-hours services facing ‘day of reckoning’

After-hours services facing ‘day of reckoning’

The RACGP has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to launch an investigation into after-hours medical services following News Corp reports it is using unqualified doctors to treat patients.
 


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