Be wary of organisations circumventing telehealth criteria: RACGP Services are reportedly trying to blindside GPs and side step recent MBS reforms to telehealth.
Legislation signals CPD changes for GPs RACGP President Dr Harry Nespolon told newsGP the college’s focus is patient safety, not administrative control, in response to a new Bill that would alter the way CPD compliance is recorded.
Australia’s primary care COVID-19 response Australia is building a COVID-19 response on the basis of its very strong system of primary healthcare, Professor Michael Kidd writes.
Quarantined GPs able to work with new telehealth item numbers GPs forced to self-isolate will still be able to provide essential healthcare services by using the new telehealth MBS item numbers.
States to receive $1 billion in coronavirus funding But uncertainty remains over GP access to more masks and new telehealth item numbers.
Chief Medical Officer flags coronavirus telehealth expansion Professor Brendan Murphy told Senate Estimates the Government is ‘certainly looking at’ telehealth items for coronavirus cases and patients with chronic disease.
First AskMBS advisory shines a light on general practice GPs and practice managers now have easy access to advice on commonly asked questions regarding the MBS.
These GPs worked with Australia’s most vulnerable patients – until the compliance crackdown The reward for the hard work these GPs put into treating body and mind? Unfair punishment, they claim.
RACGP President calls for immediate end to co-claiming crackdown GPs treat each patient as a person, not a statistic. Dr Harry Nespolon has called on the Department of Health to treat GPs with the same respect.
‘Nudge’ letters in spotlight amid GP push back on compliance campaign Concern over the Government approach has seen thousands join the backlash against the latest letter targeting mental and physical health co-claiming.