Context
There are telehealth wellness and “optimisation” clinics sending patients for Medicare funded tests to a 3rd party telehealth company that has agreed to provide Medicare funded testing automatically. The wellness company does this because they know the patients don’t qualify for Medicare funded pathology under their own clinic. Their attitude seems to be – ‘it’s them, not us, we are clean’. The 3rd party would need to have their own clear clinical reasons for ordering and that would be on them if not complaint. But how would it reflect on the original company knowingly engaging in this?
