When patients are seen by our GP and they have a care plan in place, is it OK for the practice nurse to see the patient immediately after they are finished with the GP and then claim item 1099…
read more >I work in a public hospital and suddenly all of my outpatient procedures that I bulk bill are being rejected. They have been paid without issue for years. What’s going on?
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read more >I am a rehabilitation physician that works in a private hospital that is offering a hospital substitution program for post joint replacement rehabilitation. Under the plan the surgeon will det…
read more >I’m a geriatrician and am sometimes called to ICU to review ventilated and sedated patients. I can’t talk to the patient obviously but I review their records and do a physical examination and …
read more >I am a rehabilitation physician that works at a public hospital that offers rehab in the home and hospital in the home for patients, as part of early discharge or hospital substitution strateg…
read more >I understand that nurse practitioners (NP) cannot bill outpatients seen in public hospital outpatient clinics but what about private hospital outpatient clinics?
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read more >On an internal referral written by a Specialist/ Physician does the patients GP details have to be written as per the Health Insurance Regs Section 99. As it is an internal referral the patien…
read more >Can anaesthetists charge patients a separate administration or booking fee of say $1,000 before they are admitted to hospital for their anaesthetic?Â
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read more >If an on-call obstetrician attends a delivery on behalf of the primary obstetrician (perhaps because they are unavailable at that time), should the on-call obstetrician bill with Medicare and …
read more >Can you please weigh in on the following question? I sent this to askMBS and got something of an unhelpful answer.
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Dear Medicare Support Team,I am writing to seek formal clarification re…
