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Dr Margaret Faux’s PhD thesis is a critical examination of medical practitioner experiences, perceptions, attitudes and knowledge of Medicare and medical billing in Australia. The narrative journey unpacks a broken Medicare billing system in urgent need of reform.
Size A4 – 474 pages

Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 17. Why doesn’t private health insurance cover me out of hospital?

This course describes the skills and knowledge required to research information about compliance and ethical practice responsibilities, and then develop and monitor policies and procedures to meet those responsibilities.

Educational needs of medical practitioners about medical billing: a scoping review of the literature
Margaret Faux, Jon Adams & Jonathan Wardle
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A simple explanation of the function that the TGA serves in the broader context of the Health portfolio
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There is no simple yes or no answer to a medicare question, and in this short video Dr Margaret Faux, explains the reasons why it is so.
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INCLUDED IN MEDICAL BILLING ESSENTIALS PACK
Oh so many categories! But don’t you worry, we’ve got you covered with this handy one hour guide to categorising patients correctly and dealing with changing patient statuses.
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Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 7. How does bulk billing work?

Freakonomics Radio
Nurses are critical to patient outcomes (especially in primary care). Could the growing army of nurse practitioners be an answer to the doctor shortage?
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TOO MANY CODES!
Sit back and become an expert on codes! This course will explain the most common international code sets that you will likely come across and what purpose they serve.
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MEDICAL BILLING ESSENTIALS PACK
Australian doctors, we know you have never been taught how Medicare and the Australian health system works and how to bill correctly, but we also know that many of you would like to find out.
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This course is for all Australian health professionals. It will teach you what constitutes good medical record keeping. The course comprehensively covers general legal requirements, Codes of Conduct, Medicare requirements, as well as best practice principles. You will explore SOAP notes and how they can be modified to suit the Australian context, and the real legal cases throughout the course will keep you engaged and drive home the importance of good record keeping.
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The MEDICARE COMPLIANCE PACK includes:
1. Understanding Medicare compliance audits – includes the new shared debt recovery scheme
2. Record keeping requirements for Australian Health Professionals
3. Medical billing in public hospitals
4. Bulk billing – Medicare’s heart beat
5. Ethical medical billing – read the letter from a practice manager and sober up!
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Would you like to draw on decades of medical billing data and expert personal experience to help you navigate the hundreds of possible service combinations and billing rules? Then join us for this short course.
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Why not undertake a little Rehab to get your Medicare billing skills to the top of the game!
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INCLUDED IN MEDICAL BILLING ESSENTIALS PACK
Refer, refer, refer! That’s a big part of your day, isn’t it? Are you doing it correctly though? Are you sure?
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Dr Margaret Faux’s PhD thesis is a critical examination of medical practitioner experiences, perceptions, attitudes and knowledge of Medicare and medical billing in Australia. The narrative journey unpacks a broken Medicare billing system in urgent need of reform.
Size A4 – 474 pages

The STARTING PRIVATE PRACTICE PACK includes:
1. Introduction to Medicare and medical billing
2. Ethical medical billing and the Medicare Benefits Schedule
3. Bulk billing, Medicare’s heart beat
4. Private outpatient billing
5. Provider number law and practice
6. The rules of referrals – includes locum billing rules
7. Medical billing in public hospitals
8. Record keeping requirements for Australian health professionals
9. Cyber-security for health data
10. Understanding good prescribing and dispensing practices
11. Brands vs Generics: Myth or Fact
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There have been some recent changes to MBS Telehealth Items. But what does this mean for you and your practice?
Coviu brings to you a 30 minute webinar where Medicare expert Dr Margaret Faux, CEO of Synapse Medical Services, keeps you up to date with the latest changes!
What are the telehealth MBS changes, and what do they mean for you and your practice?

In this 22nd session of Advance Health, we looked at how digitisation and standardisation of coded-data alogorithms are becoming driving forces in the advancement and improvement of healthcare systems, both locally and globally.
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In this 21st edition of Advance Health, experts discussed the future of biotechnology in the region, from advancements in personalised medicine to the importance of genomics and data.
Advance Health was formed as a partnership by Dubai Science Park, Synapse Medical Services and Connect Communications
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Medicare schedule fee is actually not a fee. In this short video Dr Margaret Faux, explains more about what this amount of money means.
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Medicare benefits are only available for clinically relevant services. In this short video Dr Margaret Faux, explains what constitutes clinical relevance.
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A new voluntary patient registration scheme is set to come into effect in July as part of the government’s primary care health plan.
New ‘paternalistic’ telehealth changes may be unconstitutional, warns expert
You can listen to this podcast by subscribing for a free 4 week trial.
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There is no simple yes or no answer to a medicare question, and in this short video Dr Margaret Faux, explains the reasons why it is so.
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In this short video Dr Margaret Faux explains what rationing rules are, and how they are applied across Australia’s Medicare system.
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In this short video Dr Margaret Faux explains about Medicare, Australia’s universal health coverage system.
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“It had been obvious to me for many years that there was a growing problem with Medicare that no one was talking about. It was the antithesis of rorting and more complex and nuanced than the media could understand. I felt we needed to end decades of unreliable, ill-informed opinions, and wrap some evidence around the causes of non-compliant medical billing in Australia.” – Dr Margaret Faux
15+ hrs
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A peer review, research article, this is a qualitative examination of the experiences, perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge of Australian medical practitioners regarding medical billing
Margaret Faux, Jon Adams, Simran Dahiya, Jon Wardle
1 hr
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Strongly recommend for any specialist in public and private practice
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