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- Category: COVID MBS FAQs
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 64, 18 July 2022
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 63, 07 July 2022
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 62, 01 July 2022
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 61, 30 June 2022
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 60, 10 February 2022
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 59, 25 January 2022
- COVID MBS items Newsflash! No.58, 20 January 2021
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 57, 4 January 2022
- COVID MBS items Newsflash! No.56, 30 December 2021
- COVID MBS items Newsflash! No. 55, 15 September 2021
- COVID MBS items Newsflash! No. 54, 18 September 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 53, 10 September 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 52, 19 August 2020
- COVID MBS items, Major Changes from Monday, No. 51, 20 July 2020
- COVID MBS items, Major Changes from Monday, No. 50, 17 July 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 49, 1 July 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 48, 18 June 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 47, 10 June 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 46, 3 June 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 45, 1 June 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 44, 27 May 2020
- COVID MBS items News Flash, No. 43, 25 May 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 42, 13 May 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 41, 11 May 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 40, 6 May 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 39, 4 May 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 38, 1 May 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 37, 29 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 36, 27 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 35, 24 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 34, 23 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 33, 22 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 32, 22 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 31, 21 April 2020
- COVID MBS billing News Flash! No. 30, 19 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 29, 17 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 28, 16 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Special Confusion Issue, No. 27, 15 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 26, 14 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 25, 9 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 24, 8 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 23, 8 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 22, 7 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Explainer and FAQs, No. 21, 6 April 2020
- COVID MBS Billing News Flash! No. 20, 5 April 2020
- COVID MBS items Special Edition Nurse Practitioners, No. 19, 4 April 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.18, 3 April 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.17, 2 April 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.16, 1 April 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.15, 31 March 2020
- COVID MBS items FAQs No.14, 31 March 2020, Special Edition Bulk Bill Signature Explainer
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.13, 30 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.12, 29 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.11, 29 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No.10, 27 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 9, 26 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 8, 25 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 7, 24 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 6, 23 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 5, 20 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 4, 19 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 3, 18 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 2, 17 March 2020
- COVID MBS items explainer and FAQs No. 1, 16 March 2020
- Category: LATEST NEWS
- Pulse IT article: Arcadia Pittwater Private Hospital joins Matilda Nepean in implementing Synapse/MasterCare billing platform
- Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce elects Dr Margaret Faux to the board of directors
- Press Release: Australian Corporate Integrations – Synapse Medical, MasterCare, Matilda Nepean and Arcadia Pittwater
- Press Release: Kirontech and Synapse formally announce a partnership in healthcare payment integrity data analysis
- ABC reports: Bulk billing breaches by some GPs
- Synapse Connect June 2024
- Advance Health: Shattering Stigma Through Mental Wellbeing session May 2024
- Call for National Medical Records Audit
- ABC Investigations: Fraud, waste and abuse
- Right care
- Medicare fraud vs error
- Identifying alarming Medicare use
- Medicare Billing Behaviour
- Uncomfortable truths
- ABC Investigations: Endless Pain
- ABC Investigations: The Price of Pain
- Medicare billing law and practice course, an Australian first
- Four Corners: Pain Factory
- Talking Tech Health podcast broadcasts from Arab Health 2024 Conference
- Arab Health 2024
- Advance Health at Arab Health: Health and Movement session January 2024
- Advance Health at Arab Health: Advancements in Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment
- Synapse Connect December 2023
- Advance Health special session December 2023
- Advance Health session October 2023
- Questionable business practices expose the health payment system – a spotlight on Podiatry
- Healthcare Innovation – Moving from Digital to Smart: Advance Health session
- Synapse Connect September 2023
- Taking Australian digital health to the Middle East & beyond – Talking Tech Health
- Medicare Fraud Claims – 9News Investigates
- A Roadmap for AI in Healthcare – Advance Health
- Medicare Legal Issues in Bulk Billing produced by Leo Cussen Centre for Law
- Medicare Fraud – ABC News episode
- A landmark report into Medicare estimates non-compliance losses of up to $3 billion a year
- Medicare is once again in the spot light
- ABC interview with Dr Margaret Faux, discussing Medicare compliance and GPs
- Arab Health 2023
- Annette Panzera – Government and Corporate Relations Director
- Synapse Connect December 2022 – So here it is, the end of another year!
- Medical Republic article – Medicare belongs to the Australian people
- HL7 and openEHR, better together
- Medical Republic article – Three little words…
- Medical Republic article – What do you do when neither Medicare nor your MDO has a clue?
- Medical Republic article – Where is your health data now?
- Medical Republic article – Medicare reform needs to be led by experts who understand the whole system
- Medical Republic article – The international language of SNOMED
- Synapse Connect July 2022
- Medical Republic article – Australia’s health system still in the traveller’s cheque phase
- Advance Health Care Dubai 2022
- Medical Republic article – Reform before rebate rise
- Article by Adele Ferguson on the big losses of tax payer’s money from billing errors through Medicare system
- Synapse Coding Manager chosen as the co-chair for openEHR International Education Program Board.
- Medical Republic article – Impenetrable codes and bad ‘official’ advice
- Medical Republic article – Let’s bill the why, not just the what
- Article by Dana Daniel on the AHPRA inquiry into allegations on misconduct into the cosmetic surgery industry
- Medical Republic article – ECG changes amount to gibberish
- The Guardian article – Inflated bulk billing numbers and Medicare is haemorrhaging money
- Medical Republic article – PSR law is written so the PSR wins
- Medical Republic article – Paid or not to be paid, that is the question
- Medical Republic article – the reforms we really need
- Telehealth a target in recent primary healthcare reforms
- PSR-strengthening bill sails through committee – Medical Republic article
- New reforms will restrict access and equitability to healthcare
- Medical Republic article – Unpacking the Government’s Medicare ‘fair fee’ definition
- Medical Republic article – We’re all doing it, so it must be legal … right?
- Article by Melissa Davey on Medicare findings
- Medical Republic article – how to bill, when to bill, and whether to bill
- Medical Republic article – Show me the double dip
- IMEXHS and Synapse deliver integrated medical billing
- Medical Republic article – Medicare payments: expensive, old-fashioned, unnecessarily punitive, and ineffective
- Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce Annual Report 2020-21
- Medical Republic article – Ins, outs, and in-outs!
- Synapse Connect December 2021 – So here it is, Merry Christmas!
- Medical Republic article – To name or not to name a referral…
- Medical Republic article – Get SMART, or get pinged
- Medical Republic article – Too many standards to bear
- Medical Republic article – Medicare365: punting on compliance
- Medical Republic article – When it comes to billing, doctors eat their young
- Synapse Connect October 2021
- AIMAC and Leo Cussen Centre for Law announce education partnership
- Medical Republic article – Medical billing is full of reasonable doubts
- Medical Republic article – Medicare: how it started, how it’s going
- InfoMedix and Synapse Medical announce integration and partnership looking at Australia and beyond
- Synapse and Simbani announce Telehealth for the Bush initiative
- Medical Republic article – Why I did a PhD on Medicare claiming and compliance
- Medical Republic article – MBS Wild West
- EBM Analytics and Synapse Medical Services announce integration and partnership
- AIMAC new website is now live!
- Telehealth for the Bush
- Criminalising split medical bills? We are in la la land!
- Anthony Albanese says the cost of visiting your doctor has increased by more than 30 per cent since the Coalition took office. Is he correct?
- Greg Hunt says nearly 90 per cent of people receive their GP services for free. Is he correct?
- Synapse Connect March 2021
- Vijaya Group – Industry ICON Awards 2021
- Proud to join the Talking HealthTech community
- Fatal wound for Medicare? New fees for dressings “herald the end of bulk-billing”
- Synapse Connect December 2020 – So here it is, Merry Christmas!
- HIMAA Newsletter, September 2020 – Member Profile
- Synapse and Medical Records Institute partner to offer Aircoder in Kenya
- Synapse and Alliance Care Technologies partner to offer automated clinical coding software internationally
- Synapse Connect July 2020 – our 10th anniversary year
- Advance Health: The acceleration of digital health in the COVID-19 world
- Hunt for the man from SNOMED River
- Telehealth is not quite the colt from old Regret but it sure as hell has got away
- Synapse and Phenix partner for mobile telehealth and billing solution
- Is forcing GPs to bulk-bill the MBS Covid items legal?
- Advance Health Webinar : Coronavirus
- Synapse connect March 2019 – our 10th anniversary year
- Billing in Byzantium
- Advance Health Highlights Role of Healthcare Technology in Fighting Diabetes
- Synapse Connect December 2019 – So here it is, Merry Christmas!
- SASMOA – Private Practice 101 – Your Questions Answered
- Next Generation Sequencing – Empowering Clinical Practice
- Published in the Journal of Law and Medicine (2019) 27 JLM 66
- Synapse moves into Dubai Science Park
- Paperless and Proud
- Needs based investment in healthcare policies to support best practice and centres of excellence
- More mental health specialists needed to respond to growing demand for services, Experts at Advance Health Forum State
- New Synapse India Office!
- Synapse connect September 2019 – announcing new ‘share patients’ function in the Synapps MBS!
- A billing platform for rural health services
- Wrap up from the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners National Conference, 2-5 Sept 2019
- RACGP takes aim at Co-op membership fees in return for bulk-billed services
- Icon Cancer Centre medical billing system roll out
- Synapse’s Margaret Faux presents at RACS Workshop
- Synapse and AIMAC to offer billing and educational solutions to NATSIHWA members
- Who’s a Medicare expert? Anyone by law, no one in reality
- A History of Medical Records in the Ancient World
- Medicare asking one million patients to hand-deliver cheques to pay doctors
- Dubai to become 3D printing hub
- Synapse to Sponsor Charity Rally Team
- Synapse Connect May 2019 Bulletin
- Synapse CEO appointed to NSW Government Council
- Industry Member Focus
- Seriously, Information Security
- Experts Compare Benefits of Public and Private Healthcare Systems at Advance Health
- Health Minister Greg Hunt said the bulk-billing rate is up and fewer patients have costs when they see a GP.
- Have out-of-pocket costs to visit a GP gone up 25 per cent under the Coalition Government?
- National Rural Health Conference – Tasmania
- “Thinking Outside the Hospital Box” with Murdoch University Dubai
- Revolutionise your medical billing with Synapse’s industry disruptive Medical Billing System packages!
- The importance of data in improving healthcare – Advance Health
- Arab Health 2019
- Is this the biggest Medicare rort of all?
- Clinical Coding with Synapse Medical Services
- Australia Day and India’s Republic Day share the same date. Serendipity or a message from Goddess Lakshmi for Australian businesses to step up?
- Hospitals may risk harsh penalties under new Medicare legislation
- Preventative Measures and Positive Lifestyle Changes can pose as a Cost-Effective Solution to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases
- Synapse Connect December 2018 Bulletin
- 5 common medical billing mistakes and how to avoid them
- Brave new world of health care
- 5 ways to get the most out of your medical transcription service
- 5 ways to get the most out of your clinical coding
- ‘Unnecessary risk’: GPs dumped in Medicare muddle
- Telemedicine in the evolving healthcare landscape
- Law trumps Medicare advice on bulk-bill vouchers
- Healthcare’s out-of-pocket crisis
- Why aren’t medical fees made publicly available?
- IABCA Awards Evening
- HealthMinds Memorandum of Understanding
- Key partners visit Chennai office
- AIMAC Launched!
- Education and Development in Healthcare
- ISO 9001: 2015 – We did it again!
- Synapse Medical Services Raises Focus on Rare Diseases During Expert Panel
- Synapse Connect September 2018 Bulletin
- Digital Technology and the Future of Medical Finance Workshop
- BUPA medical billing changes effective 1 August 2018
- Synapse hopes to restore trust between patients, providers and payers
- Are Medical Billing System technologies the new future of medical billing
- Dubai Science Park Launches Knowledge Exchange Platform to Enhance Dubai’s Healthcare Sector
- NAIDOC Week
- #OutOfPocket
- Mental Health – A worldwide awareness
- As new study highlights financial burden on cancer patients, some ways forward on excessive healthcare costs?
- Why do we have out of pocket medical fees?
- Synapse Connect June 2018 Bulletin
- Australian Digital Health Advancements in the Last Decade
- CEO message – Synapse new website
- Announcing Amanda Barbone
- Our Arabian adventure continues…
- Opportunities in the GCC Healthcare Market
- Synapse Connect March 2018 Bulletin
- Healthcare Disrupted
- Social Media – The Rise of Video Content at Synapse!
- Inside Arab Health 2018
- Arab Health 2018, Exhibitor Press Release
- Synapse Connect Christmas 2017 bulletin
- The Art of Communication that Synapse Will Never Lose!
- Business in India – Why do Business There?
- The United Nations of Synapse
- Synapse Connect November bulletin
- Then and Now: a Look at Medical Administration Services
- IABCA Awards Evening – Brisbane City Hall 13th October 2017
- CBT Clinics and Synapse Medical Services
- Introducing Synfilla
- ahha 10 Year Health Agreement Blueprint Roundtable
- Private health insurance policy: a dog’s breakfast?
- Australia’s Only Medical Billing Rules Engine
- India’s workforce and skills put Aussies on notice (ABC Interview featuring Synapse CEO, Margaret Faux)
- ABWI 2017
- Synapse’s health fund form filling software is here
- Careers in Medical Administration
- Synapps version 2.3.4 is here! 7864 billing rules and counting…
- Synapse Connect June bulletin
- Important changes to Medibank Private no-gap and known-gap T&Cs
- Synapse Connect March bulletin
- Synapse Newsletter January 2017
- Newsletter, December 2016
- It’s time to celebrate because Synapps 2.2.0 is finally here!
- Important: Latest version of Synapps – version 2.2.0 – will be released next week
- Newsletter, September 2016
- Newsletter, June 2016
- Margaret Faux presenting at the AMA National Conference in Canberra on 27 May 2016
- AMA Conference 2016
- Newsletter, April 2016
- Tap and gone: Outsourcing Medicare (ABC Interview)
- Outsourcing Medicare: Will a ‘tap and go’ approach lead to Medicare being tapped and gone?
- Outsourcing Medicare payments to private sector “beggars belief”: expert
- Sussan Ley under fire over pathology comments
- Pap smears and political amnesia
- Synapse Christmas arrangements
- Newsletter, November 2015
- Challenges to the implementation of capitation payments for chronic illness
- IMPORTANT: Changes at HCF require action by you by 29 June 2015
- Newsletter, April 2015
- Tony Abbott’s Medicare “deforms” or How to Trick Senators 1.01
- Christmas newsletter, 2014
- Newsletter September 2014
- Outsourcing Medicare: Is it as easy as ? (pi)?
- Abbott’s Medicare reforms – today’s crime is tomorrow’s co-payment
- 2014 the year of the co-payment: lessons from the NHS
- HIC 2014: Enter the world of e-health innovation
- GP co-payments: Deregulation of the bulk billing market
- Medicare co-payments – Has Tony Abbott closed Australia for (private health insurance) business?
- 1 July 2014 Fee Updates
- Synapps important updates, May 2014
- Newsletter April 2014
- Merry Christmas from Synapse Medical Services
- 1 November Fee Updates
- Synapps important updates, October 2013
- Newsletter – September 2013
- Synapps important updates
- Newsletter – April 2013
- Newsletter – December 2012
- Your invitation to our ‘new office’ opening in Spring Street
- Newsletter – September 2012
- The Synapps project’s progress
- Newsletter – May 2012
- Newsletter – February 2012
- Newsletter – December 2011
- The Part 3 Course invitation
- Update – 1 November 2011 fees
- Newsletter – October 2011
- Courses in Practice, Financial and Lifestyle Management for Specialist Trainees & Fellows
- Update – July 2011: Medibank Private Eclipse claiming
- Newsletter – June, 2011
- Update – May, 2011: Our secure member’s area has evolved
- Update – April, 2011
- Newsletter – March, 2011
- Newsletter – December, 2010
- We’ve got the numbers
- Newsletter – August, 2010
- A matter of privacy
- Newsletter – April, 2010
- MBS and HBA updates
- Just Your Type
- 1 February 2010 fee changes and service updates
- Newsletter – January, 2010
- Welcome to Synapse
- Expansion of services … 24-hour typing services!
- Category: EVENTS
- Category: PUBLICATIONS
- Frenetic law making during the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on doctors, patients and the Medicare system
- Medicare billing, law and practice: Complex, incomprehensible and beginning to unravel
- Research investigates medical billing literacy in Australia
- Synapse serves as successful example for DFAT’s India Economic Strategy
- Who teaches medical billing? A national cross-sectional survey of Australian medical education stakeholders
- Shining some light on bulk billing and #OutOfPocket costs
- It’s enough to make you swear: the complexities of medical billing and out of pocket costs
- ‘No-gap’ does not guarantee there will be no gap
- Out of pocket costs: a critical health issue to watch in 2018 – but first, some history
- Private Health Insurance: A look under the bonnet
- Behind the headlines on hospital waiting times lies a murky story about lack of structural accountability
- Increasing Medicare rebates in the bush will not decrease patient out of pocket costs. Here’s why.
- Lies, damned lies and Medicare bulk-billing rates
- Privatising the Medicare payment system: What are the risks?
- Is after hours care keeping patients out of emergency departments?
- Privatisation of Medicare is risky business
- If bulk billing stops patients will pay full fees upfront
- Medicare rebate freeze will hit patients harder than they realise
- Does Medicare Need Modernising?
- Think: Health Radio Interview 2ser 107.3 – two stories you have probably heard very little about
- Seeking a Cure, The Private Practice Magazine
- Number Crunch, The Private Practice Magazine
- Access All Areas, The Private Practice Magazine
- The Rules on Referrals, The Private Practice Magazine
- Contracts, Claiming and the Colon, The Private Practice Magazine
- Claiming on Consumables, The Private Practice Magazine
- Note worthy, The Private Practice Magazine
- The cheque’s in the mail: managing arrears and bad debt in private practice
- Claiming Control, The Private Practice Magazine
- Medicare Matters, The Private Practice Magazine
- Handle with Care, The Private Practice magazine
- TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
- Mind the gap, Medical Billing, The Private Practice magazine
- Myth Busting, Medical Billing, The Private Practice magazine
- Private Practice in a Bag, The Private Practice
- Category: TEAM TALK
- Category: Case Studies
- Category: Clinical Coding
- Category: Croakey Series
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