> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Twyford > Sent: Monday, 27 February 2006 2:05 PM > To: General Practice Computing Group Talk > > It's not mass civil disobedience until it's out in the open.
I hope that my message helped to bring it out into the fresh air and light of the day. > > Either they don't know it's happening, or they are choosing to ignore > while everyone keeps quiet and no loss of face is involved for them. You got it. > > In fact, at the moment it's just possibly fraud on the part of the > practitioners who are involved. Not possibly - definitely. The people who are taking the risks are the specialists like Duncan and my local specialists who are issuing their accounts with item numbers that are to be used only when the referral has been signed in one of the ways defined by the Health Insurance Act. The specialists are taking these risks in the interests of patients' welfare. The GPs writing the 'unsigned' (according to the Health Insurance Act) referrals are not taking any risk in this - I can send as many 'unsigned' referrals or other communications as I want. In the old East Germany, there was a mass movement against the repressive state regime, which just folded up and disappeared. If most specialists in Australia accept 'unsigned' (according to the Health Insurance Act) referrals, what is Medicare Australia going to do? Sack them all? Put them all in jail? Demand repayment from millions of their patients? Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens South Australia 5086 Ph. 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
