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We are delighted to announce Annette Panzera as our new Director Of Government and Corporate Relations at Synapse Medical Services.
Annette Panzera will be based out of our #Dubai office. Annette is an experienced health economist and policy advisor passionate about impro…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Hot off the press there are two new covid telephone item numbers for GPs which will commence tomorrow, and we also have an update about the 80/20 rule.
First the two new GP items.
We received an updated MBS file late this afternoon an…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Just a quick update.
As we flagged in Bulletin 62, the department made an error last week, which is has now corrected.
Items 91834, 91835, 92431 and 92432 have now been officially removed from the MBS.
The 30/20 rule still has not …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Unsurprisingly, there was another 11th hour change announced late yesterday, and we have had a few excellent questions overnight. First though the announcement.
The Federal Health Minister, the Hon Mark Butler MP, has decided to postpone…
Congratulations to our digital health expert and coding manager, Heather Grain, who has been elected as co-chair for the openEHR international Education Program Board.
Heather has years of practical and strategic leadership in EHR and terminology design and development. A long…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
We have waited till the last minute to send this bulletin, and we’re glad we did because a revised 1 July MBS file landed in our inbox at 4.50pm today. Ten minutes before the official EOFY! Take a moment to think about that and what it me…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
We have received a handful of good questions over the past few weeks.
Here are the answers.
1. I have some patients where I do home visits in residential care. However, two facilities have COVID cases, and I want to convert to telehea…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Before we answer the few questions received in recent days, I thought I would take a moment to say that there has been quite a lot of misinformation spread about the Covid telehealth changes. I saw incorrect information that the 12-month pr…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
The government giveth and the government taketh away and then the government giveth back again!
I’m sure you are all as exhausted as we are trying to keep up with this ever-changing billing landscape, so I’ll keep this short and shar…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Lots of updates with the new laws now in force.
We received some excellent questions, as expected, and with the legislation now on the register we have the following answers and updates.
Before we start, some legal definitions that ar…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Firstly, we hope you are enjoying the festive season, spending time with loved ones and staying Covid safe.
There are major changes happening to Covid telehealth item numbers from 1 January 2022. The changes have not yet hit the Federal …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Newsflash! Private inpatient telehealth services are here!
It’s been almost a year to the day since we sent our last Covid bulletin. We hope you have all been surviving out there.
A major change hit the federal register yesterday…
The latest article for Croakey Health Media by our CEO, Margaret Faux, discussing the Private Healthcare Australia proposal to criminalise surprise split medical bills. Arguing this is an ill-conceived, non-evidence-based overreach, that does not fit within the proper role of…
Margaret Faux featuring in #Medicare #GP #Doctor news in #Australian today.
The claim
In a prelude to what the next federal election campaign may look like, Labor says cutting Medicare is “in the Liberals’ DNA”.
On June 8, 2021, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese attac…
The claim
The federal government has come under fire from doctors for its decision to make changes to more than 900 items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).
The impact of these changes, which came into effect on July 1 after a five-year MBS review, remains to be seen….
On International Women’s Day 2021 it gives us great pleasure to congratulate the outstanding achievement of our own Vidhya Bala who won the Industry Icon Award last week from the Vijaya Group of Hospital.
The event was organised to recognise individual talent in the h…
Synapse is delighted to announce that we’ve joined the growing community over at Talking HealthTech.
We are excited to become full members for 2021 and support the great work being done by Peter Birch and his team.
You can see our listing here.
Watch this space for som…
In this comprehensive article below, solicitor and Medicare scholar Margaret Faux and health informatician and clinical coder Heather Grain warn that the MBS Review Taskforce proposal for GPs to be able to charge co-payments for dressings will have big ramifications, heralding …
We are very proud that our Group Co-ordinator, Quality Assurance, Aircoder – Pratheena Augustine, was selected for a member profile article in the monthly newsletter (September 2020) of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA). We understand…
Synapse Medical Services, the Australian company with an AI driven automated medical coding system that can code up to 10 episodes per second, and Medical Records Institute, a Kenyan company with a focus on health informatics consulting, are delighted to announce a partnership to…
Synapse Medical Services, the Australian company with an AI driven automated coding system that can code up to 10 episodes per second, and Alliance Care Technologies, an American company with unique technologies that are tailored to assist physicians across the entire continuum …
Advance Health recently convened a panel of international experts to discuss the acceleration of digital health in the COVID-19 world and the role of digital technology in the healthcare sector.
Synapse Medical Services were delighted to support a panel that discussed variou…