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Tap and gone: Outsourcing Medicare (ABC Interview)

17 Mar 2016

Will outsourcing Medicare payments lead to privatisation? Phillip Adams of ABC’s Late Night Live asks just this of Margaret Faux – as US outsourcing firm, Accenture, rumours to be interested in tendering for Medicare’s payment systems.

‘Healthy is the new wealthy’ is one of …

Outsourcing Medicare: Will a ‘tap and go’ approach lead to Medicare being tapped and gone?

17 Feb 2016

In this recent Croakey article, Margaret Faux challenges the Government’s position and argues that the proposal to outsource Medicare payments could lead to long-term and irreversible changes to the fundamental nature of Medicare.

Read the story in full on Croakey.org

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Outsourcing Medicare payments to private sector “beggars belief”: expert

11 Feb 2016

Our very own Margaret Faux answers some questions for journalist Kate McDonald of PULSE+IT, as the story breaks that the Australian government is looking at privatising or outsourcing Medicare claiming and payments.

The idea of outsourcing the notoriously complex Medicare paym…

Does Medicare Need Modernising?

27 Jan 2016

Medicare is one of those things that’s distinctly Australian but does it need to adapt to the times? Margaret Faux is a lawyer, registered nurse and founder of Synapse Medical Services.

Her PhD is entitled “Claiming and compliance under the Medicare Benefits Schedule: A critic…

Sussan Ley under fire over pathology comments

18 Jan 2016

Health Minister Sussan Ley’s office has come under fire for her recent comments, saying patients should be “suspicious” of pathologists’ estimates of how much they would have to pay for pap smears and blood tests to recover planned federal cuts. Our very own Margaret Faux dispute…

Pap smears and political amnesia

18 Jan 2016

The pap smear debacle exposes an amnesia at the heart of government, where reforms are born in a vacuum and informed debate takes a back seat, writes Margaret Faux.

Ready the story in full on Croakey.org

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Synapse Christmas arrangements

18 Dec 2015

 

The Synapse office will remain open over the Christmas period with the exception of the public holidays.

There may be some minor delays in completing your files as we will be operating with skeleton staff.

We wish you all a safe and happy festive season and than…

Newsletter, November 2015

13 Nov 2015

 

What a year! It’s seems that only a moment ago we sent out the April newsletter and yet here we are, drawing close to the end of 2015. I’m delighted to be able to finally take a breath and update you on the exciting developments at Synapse since we last spoke.