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Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
An important question about the supervision rules and their application in public hospitals today as well as a clarification about claiming if called about a patient, but not by a patient. Also, a good question about the likelihood of conti…
Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt had a nice little announcement yesterday, revealing that since March 13, there have been 10.4 million services delivered to 5.71 million patients by telehealth, with $536.5 million benefits paid, and close to 70,000 healthcare providers hav…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
It’s been a while!
We hope you are all managing well out there and have settled into the new Covid way of working. And hopefully, you have clarity around how to correctly bill the new Covid services.
We are still receiving lots of e…
Published in Pulse + IT Magazine
Written by Margaret Faux and Heather Grain on 18 May 2020
Telehealth has bolted away as fast as the colt from old Regret as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, says he wants telehealth to continue post …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Some interesting and complex questions in the last few days regarding public patients in private hospitals, which will be of relevance to all specialists and particularly VMOs.
Also a question about ‘Usual’ vs Covid telehealth. Here …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Welcome to another week and the promise of long-term telehealth. Good or not so good? Only time will tell.
Some really great questions today. Complex and common. Here are the answers:
1. Electronic consent for DVA telehealth – is th…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Here are the answers to today’s questions.
1. Can a specialist bill a gap for a consultation fee to a patient over the age of 70 years using codes 91822/91823?
Yes. Mandatory bulk billing was lifted for specialists from 20 April 2…
Medicare billing app vendor Synapse Medical Services has partnered with virtual GP clinic Phenix Health to provide a mobile telehealth and billing solution for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doctors can complete a telehealth consult on the Phenix platform, bill it, and receive a respo…
There is a clause for GPs using the new telehealth items: patients defined as ‘susceptible’ to COVID-19 must be bulk-billed (no exceptions).
Is this legal? Margaret Faux, an expert on Medicare and its mysteries, offers her view.
The roll out of new COVID-19 MBS te…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
A warm welcome to the new week and thank you to those of you who have submitted questions.
We have received so many intelligent and thought provoking non-COVID questions over the weekend, covering a vast array of important billing law is…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Welcome to the month of May and the weekend, though I’m wondering if a weekend is still a thing.
We hope you continue to travel well, and we continue to express our thanks to all of you out there on the front lines, while some of us ar…