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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.
1 Year subscription includes unlimited access to all answers and ability to ask questions.
How does MBS Answers work?
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to apply principles and procedures relating to confidentiality, privacy and security when working within the medical environment. It covers working within accepted codes of conduct and following confidentiality, privacy and security provisions.
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 13. Private in public
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 7. How does bulk billing work?
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 8. Are booking fees illegal?
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to provide advice to patients regarding Australian fee structures and process referrals, as well as prepare and process medical accounts for a range of patients.
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain patient records within an existing medical records management system, under the supervision of a senior receptionist or practice manager.
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 1. Who are we
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 2. Understanding Medicare
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 3. Who owns the Medicare rebate?
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Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 4. Differential Rebates Part 1
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Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 5. Differential Rebates Part 2
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Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 6. Can Doctors charge whatever they want?
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 9. Does no gap mean no gap?
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 10. Bulk billing – Follow the money
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 12. Lots of hospital bills
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 15. How to deal with unexpected hospital bills
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 14. How does the Medicare safety net work?
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 16. Is bulk billing public outpatients legal?
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 17. Why doesn’t private health insurance cover me out of hospital?
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 18. Known gaps
Part of the Minute with Margaret video series 11. Where to get free medical services
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to determine and analyse existing and required resources within health facilities, their effective application and the accountability for their use.
Listen to Sir Michael Marmot, author of The Health Gap, speak at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival 2016 with a focus on Indigenous Australian Health
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Sir Michael Gideon Marmot, FBA, FMedSci, FRCP
AtOne meditation app
Virtual Reality is here for health
AtOne meditation app
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AtOne meditation app
No payments, copayments and faux payments: are medical practitioners adequately equipped to manage Medicare claiming and compliance?
Margaret Faux, Jonathan Wardle & Jon Adams
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One function of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is to monitor and enforce compliance with laws that regulate medicines and medical devices in Australia. This video provides an overview of their compliance work.
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Human: solving the global workforce crisis in health care by Mark Britnell
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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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Medicare Billing, Law and Practice: Complex, Incomprehensible and Beginning to Unravel
Margaret Faux, Jonathan Wardle & Jon Adams
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Fact sheet on Universal health coverage (UHC): key facts, what is UHC, benefits of implementing UHC and WHO response
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Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage (The world health report 2010)
Download from the WHO digital library
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We interviewed Muath, a young Yemeni living and working in Saudi on how he would go about getting a doctor’s appointment in Saudi Arabia.
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OpenEHR Archetypes – Thomas Beale, Ocean Informatics
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We interviewed Ahmed Emad on how one goes about getting a doctor’s appointment in Saudi Arabia.
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A major partner of the Australian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, the state of NSW showcased its most prominent and innovative health, medtech & research organisations, including Thom Soutter from Synapse Medical Services.
The event was led by the newly appointed NSW Agent General to the UK, and Senior Trade Commissioner to EU and Israel, Stephen Cartwright OAM and Moin Anwar, NSW Trade and Investment Commissioner (UAE).
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In this webinar, Dr Margaret Faux from Synapse Medical, Zoe Penders from Biosymm and Coviu’s Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, provide their insights on Phone Telehealth benefits, use cases and MBS item numbers.
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?
This ‘Share What You Know’ session was hosted by Thom Soutter from Synapse Medical Services, who shared his knowledge and experience of healthcare in the Middle East.
Within the Talking Health Tech community the #SWYK sessions are a great opportunity for members to showcase something that they are knowledgeable about that might benefit other members of the community
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In this short video Dr Margaret Faux explains about Medicare, Australia’s universal health coverage system.
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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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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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Our Advance Health session, where we heard from industry experts on the impact of AI in healthcare. Our speakers, Dr. Osama AbouElkhir, Andrew Fawcett, Brian De Francesca, and Michele Tarnaw, shared their knowledge and expertise on the various applications of AI in healthcare and the ethical implications of its use.
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Our panel of experts discussed how healthcare providers have adapted to the changing market demands in areas such as patient excellence, patient safety, the use of innovation and technology to promote better healthcare systems and providers, as well as the necessity of moving towards more environmentally friendly and sustainable practices
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In our latest Advance Health session, our panel of experts focused on the UAE’s new direction in healthcare, how digitization is becoming more prominent in the field of medicine, the roles of key players in the industry and what to expect next when it comes to innovation and growth.
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