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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…
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….
Dear Synapse Network,
March already! It’ll be Easter in a minute…
We hope 2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement on 2020 for you all.
Here at Synapse, it’s been a very busy first quarter. We have released a major app update, entered new partnerships, made …
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 …
So here it is, Merry Christmas!
2020! A memorable year for all the wrong reasons and soon to be consigned to history.
We hope that everyone reading this has made it through the year unscathed, and your families are safe and well. At Synapse we tried to stay as positive as possi…
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 …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Newsflash!
Extension of telehealth announcement was officially made today. We will pour over the details in the coming days but here it is straight from the MBS website at this link.
“Extension of the temporary telehealth and phone co…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
As we approach the legislated Covid item sunset date of 30 September 2020, the question on everybody’s lips is – are the Covid items going to continue beyond that date?
No formal announcements yet, but we hear on the grapevine there …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
It’s been quiet on the Covid billing front for a while which we hope means there is less confusion. However, quite a few questions have come in over the last week or so, most of which would be relevant to everyone. It’s quite a long rea…
Dear Synapse Network,
We hope that you are all staying safe and are slowly adapting to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 has delivered.
Like everyone, it has been a busy and challenging few months for us as we have adjusted to working from home in three countries. But our bril…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Feels a bit like ground hog day with telehealth billing chaos all over again. Angry patients erroneously thinking their telehealth consult would attract a Medicare rebate and being turned away, and providers scrambling to work out who they …
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
We hope you have all be keeping well, and to our colleagues in Victoria, please know that we are thinking of you.
This, our 50th Covid bulletin, heralds huge changes affecting GPs from Monday, and the relevant Determination hit the regis…
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…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Welcome to July!
It’s been quiet on the Covid billing questions front for a while, but a good question has come in relating to billing Covid telehealth items for admitted patients.
But first, an announcement…The new MBS Answers we…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
An important question today, relating to billing for Australian Medicare eligible persons who are overseas at the time the service is provided. Here’s the answer.
1. I saw in a previous Billing FAQs that you cannot bill Medicare if t…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Firstly, thank you all for your ongoing generous words of thanks and support. It is greatly appreciated. I am committed to answering ALL of your questions, yes really. But many are now non-Covid questions all of which are in the queue to be…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Just one question today requesting a clarification about the legalities around billing while overseas.
Here is the original question and answer posted on 1 June 2020.
If I am overseas (don’t know when I can be), and I video conferen…
Dear Doctors and Health Care Workers
Welcome to winter!
Some good questions today about retrospective billing, rejected claims and billing while overseas.
Here’s the answers.
1. I think it was about 30 March when GP Telehealth items became available for all patien…
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…