They are keen to retain payment delays - these are effectively a cash
payment in the future if they decide to shorten the delay to same day.
This could be used as a bribe in the future. The only thing to induce
them to change will be if GPs abandoned bulk billing wholesale and the
patient could get some immediate rebate ala the private funds. At
present the rate has gone up quite a lot since the slide of a few years
ago so there is no need for them to consider any change.
R
Oliver Frank wrote:
Wendy Mazdon wrote:
*Electronic claiming – /New & Improved Claiming System!!/*
AMA has been working closely with the Federal Government on
electronic claiming of Medicare rebates over the past three years.
Electronic Medicare claiming is a fast, easy and convenient new
claiming channel which will be available in the second half of this
year. It allows you and your patients to lodge Medicare claims using
the existing EFTPOS terminals already in most surgeries.
I meant to ask also:
I understand that there may be 174 million transactions per year
through this new system, and that the Commonwealth bank will be paid
23 cents per transaction, amounting to $40 million annually. Does the
AMA believe that these figures are correct? If it does, does the AMA
think that the 23 cent fee and the projected income to the
Commonwealth Bank are reasonable?
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