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In the February 15, 2022 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Dr Margaret Faux discusses the common misconception that Medicare bulk-billing for public hospital outpatient services leads to double dipping. Margaret discovers however, on close inspectio…
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…
Synapse Medical, the company with Australia’s only rules based, enterprise, medical billing system which currently has over 65,000 embedded Medicare billing rules, and IMEXHS, the leading innovator in cloud-based medical imaging solutions, are delighted to announce a partnershi…
In the February 1, 2022 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Dr Margaret Faux discusses the Professional Services Review (PSR) approach to penalising doctors found to have inappropriately billed. When first introduced was described as ‘draconian’ and t…
The Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce online version of their Annual Report 2020-’21 is now available to view from their website. Synapse is a sponsor for the not-for-profit company, and supports The Chamber’s integral ability to serve the Indo-Australian business commu…
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…
In the January 18 2022 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Dr Margaret Faux explains why the latest update to Medicare rebates is no more than a breathtakingly amateur cost-cutting exercise and is completely devoid of any understanding of the law, or …
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 …
So here it is, Merry Christmas!
Welcome to our final update for 2021, which was another difficult year with the world still battling a pandemic.
At Synapse, we continued to make the best of it, by firstly keeping everybody safe (we continued to work from home, and supported our…
In the December 14 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Dr Margaret Faux discusses some entrenched billing myths around referrals.
“Neither GPs nor public hospitals are deliberately rorting anything in this context. Both are just strugglin…
In the November 30 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Dr Margaret Faux and Heather Grain discuss the PSR’s latest expectation – that Doctors adopt the SMART goals in context to management plans for chronic disease.
“The inability of …
In the November 16 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Solicitor and CEO of Synapse Medical, Dr Margaret Faux, discusses the poorly understood standard of clinical relevance as Doctors try to navigate a spaghetti junction of standards for Medicare b…
In the November 2 issue of The Medical Republic’s Money & Medicine newsletter, Solicitor and CEO of Synapse Medical, Dr Margaret Faux, discusses Doctor’s compliance and assessing reliable advice and support from Medicare.
When Margaret asked doctors who participa…
In the recent article for The Medical Republic, Solicitor and CEO of Synapse Medical, Margaret Faux, discusses Medicare billing in a GP practice and the lack of education for registrars.
“…my research found some commendable attempts to teach correct use of Medicare, the ov…
Dear Synapse Network,
Welcome to the Spring edition of Synapse Connect.
The last quarter has been another very busy one here at Synapse. On the tech front, we have made numerous improvements to the Synapps MBS, as well as to our automated clinical coding product, Aircoder.
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The Australian Institute of Medical Administration & Compliance and the Leo Cussen Centre for Law announce education partnership.
The Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance (AIMAC) and the Leo Cussen Centre for Law, have announced they will be joinin…
There is a common view that medical billing is easy and doctors can learn what they need to know on the job. In the third article in this series, Margaret Faux highlights a few items that no one (including Medicare) knows how to bill correctly.
Read the full article, Medical b…
In 1975 when Medibank (later Medicare) was first introduced, the regulatory landscape was pretty simple.
Forty-five years later, it has morphed into a twisted and snarled morass of incoherent laws and other legal instruments, so complex and mercurial it would be beyond the com…
Synapse Medical, the company with Australia’s only Medicare integrated billing app (Synapps MBS), and the only automated clinical coding solution (Aircoder) and InfoMedix, the leading supplier of Digital Medical Records within Australia, are delighted to announce a partnership …
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…
Synapse Medical Services, a MedTech healthcare administration company based in Sydney, and Simbani Research, a research organisation based in the Northern Territory, are delighted to announce a joint Telehealth for the Bush (TH4B) Project.
Synapse Medical has been providing mo…
In this series of articles for TMR’s Money & Medicine, Margaret Faux shares her extensive research findings and recommendations for reform designed to modernise Medicare.
The first article in the series, reveals Margaret’s journey into the complexities of the Medicare …
In the recent article for The Medical Republic, Solicitor and CEO of Synapse Medical, Margaret Faux, discusses the launch of their online educational platform called the Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance (AIMAC).
“We’re very excited to have pu…
Synapse Medical Services, the company with Australia’s only comprehensive medical billing rules engine and automated clinical coding (Aircoder), and EBM Analytics (EBM), a leading Australian-based technology and consultancy team dedicated to the provision of high-quality clinic…
AIMAC is back!
Our popular education academy, AIMAC, has been having an upgrade in recent months and we are delighted to officially launch the new site today!
We have over 100 products, including short courses, subscription packages, free content to read, watch and liste…
The telehealth for the bush trial or ‘TH4B’ as it has become known, is now in full swing.
In collaboration with our research partners, Simbani Research, we are delighted to advise some updates:
We now have a network of approximately 20 specialists (a wide range of …
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…