Kylie

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@billy_pinker @QLDCountryGP @AliFranceMP Never mind these consults need 30-40min to fill the requirements so there is no extra 20min. Your maths also doesn't factor in service fees, or the no annual or sick leave, super etc that the OP added into his figure. Or the avg 11hrs/wk unpaid for paperwork/r results etc.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@griffo762014 Any thoughts regarding how these numbers reflect the actual levels in the community? As a Metro GP, the high use of Multi-RATs by my patients mean I do far less diagnosis confirmation via formal swabs. There is certainly alot of flu, but very few of my pts would be reported cases

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@yeahthegirls_ @HeatherStroud @katea76 In private billing, the Dr charges you their fee eg: $100 & the government, via Medicare, reimburses you for the $ value it has allocated for the service provided. Medicare doesn't subsidise the Dr, it reimburses you. It's your rebate. Seems nit picky, but it IS different.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@Symonds_Yat @partridge96209 @UKGastroDr Not enough. It's a big country with an aging population and increasing workforce shortage.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@partridge96209 @UKGastroDr We have interviewed and hired at least a dozen, probably more, for our Aussie hospital in the last 6 months. Excluding rotational RMOs our ED probanly has more medical staff from the UK than anywhere else (including locally)

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@AronieDawn2 @SenatorCash They are not increasing the rebate, they are increasing/expanding the BBing incentive which is different and means it's all or none IE it won't reduce gap $ if your GP doesn't BB. The AMA fee is an estimation of costs to provide the service, it goes up as business costs go up.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@carl_claw @PhoebeCakes17 @lporiginalg The solution for my family was me continuing to work as a Dr and my husband becoming the stay at home dad/ part time working parent when the kids where young.

[QLDCountry GP @QLDCountryGP]

Just ONE WEEK until @healthgovau, @AlboMP and @Mark_Butler_MP scrap the current #Medicare chronic disease items and apparently start the new ones...
...and we STILL don't have the item descriptors so we can continue caring for patients.

Is this incompetence or intentional?

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@brianstandlick @cyberpunkdingo @KosSamaras It would also be interesting what the Private health insurers would do. PHI usually won't p for any outpatient care that attracts a Medicare rebate, & if it is typical Medicare, then the rebate would be well below the cost for the service so people will potentially be more OOP?

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@brianstandlick @cyberpunkdingo @KosSamaras My understanding (from discussions with my practice-owning dentist neighbour) is that the ADA have seen what the federal gov (both major parties) did to GPs with screwing down Medicare rebates and don't want anything to do with that.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@JoshButler I found out my phone was automatically dumped them in spam (where they belong) without notifying me. Brilliant.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@_sn_n @SkylerforNY Pretty sure there were comments from MAGAs after our last Federal election, celebrating that our 'Liberal Party' had lost. Not realising that 'the Liberals' are the more conservative of Australia's major parties.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@allaroundanne @Noellenarwhal Female Dr here. Met
my now (non med) husband at 17. He supported me through med school & when we had kids he became a stay at home dad. Over the years we have flicked back and forth & now the kids are older we work & earn about the same. It's whatever makes the team work best.

[Adj Prof Karen Price, 20-22 RACGP Past Prez @brookmanknight]

Our story on the front page

A cynical vote grab calling healthcare free.

Bulk billing everyone = a promise that can’t be fulfilled

We need reform not cheap political stunts

Patients have complex needs which quick medicine =/= fix

@RACGPPresident @ama_media @amapresident

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@stephenjduckett @ConversationEDU I am booked out weeks ahead with patients happy to pay gaps for quality care. But, it's frustrating that those who can't afford this, and probably need it more, are stuck with fast throughput, ad-hoc, 6min medicine, of which Medicare provides better rebates/hr.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@stephenjduckett @ConversationEDU I'm a GP who mainly does complex chronic disease & mental health care. I have a foot out the door & will likely leave GP soon. I love GP & what we should/could be, but are not because Medicare financially disincentives me for providing care that keeps my pts out of hospital.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@AlboMP If you (or the LNP) were increasing the MBS rebates, then at least everyone's gap payments would be smaller. Instead the offer is 'all or none' IE: if GPs drop their consult fee by $60, they get a BB incentive of $30. Why would GPs accept that? Simple - they won't.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@QLDCountryGP @Medicalrepublic @hollythepayne I have never billed one of these despite absolutely covering the criteria multiple times a day. It is just basic routine care. Why on earth does it need a different item number when it rebates the same as a C anyway?

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@_nomadic_soul Hubby & I have swapped breadwinner & stay at home/ primary parent responsibilities multiple times during our marriage due, to changes in work circumstances. Currently 50:50 in earnings, parenting and home duties. Works well, we adapt as needed with minimal handover required.

[Kylie @KMBoof]

@joegarra61 @RACGPPresident @amavictoria We will not be changing our billing practices.