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Frenetic law making during the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on doctors, patients and the Medicare system

24 Apr 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken even Medicare’s pillars to their core and placed more than a virus under a microscope. Bulk billing is now the subject of experimentation in a petri dish of its own.”

Margaret Faux unpacks the constitutional barrier to mandated bulk billing …

COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 29, 17 April 2020

18 Apr 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Is it still acceptable to say, ‘happy Friday?’ Or is that now so pre-COVID?

Before answering today’s questions, we at Synapse just want to end the week by saying we hope you are all travelling well, and we thank you again, over and…

COVID MBS Billing News Flash! No. 20, 5 April 2020

5 Apr 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

News flash!

The government has been busy over the weekend, enacting the below raft of Determinations

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – COVID-19 Telehealth and Telephone Attendances) Amendment Determination 20…

COVID MBS items Special Edition Nurse Practitioners, No. 19, 4 April 2020

5 Apr 2020

Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers

Following on from yesterday’s bulletin, as promised, this is an explainer on the law around who can request COVID pathology tests.

We have been informed that some pathology companies, who are probably themselves struggling to keep up w…

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