Simon James wrote:
In any case, I expect that Medicare's first priority was to get this system
used as widely as possible as quickly as possible. If this system was
reliant on clinical software at some stage in the process, I expect the
result would have been similar to HIC Online, which took a relatively long
time to be accepted/deployed by both practices and software vendors.
Simon,
First they had Medclaims, which took a long while to roll-out, then they
laboured over HICOnline/Online claiming, which has long been
under-incentivised, now we have the eftpos device. Same strategy, same
lack of consultation with practices and testing before announcing the
"newest, biggest, thing".
I think it will just confuse practices and get people's backs up when
they realise how badly it suits practice needs, as opposed to the
government's desire to:
1. reduce the operating costs of bulk-billing
2. find a way to make move away from high rates of bulk-billing to
private billing more palatable for the electorate.
Attempts to date of the cost-shifting of Medicare running costs has
already put many practices off. Manual bulk-billing still gets you your
multi-part carbonised forms. Online claiming means you buy paper and
toner/ink. More time processing patient's interaction with Medicare for
them is a significant cost, both for Online Claiming and for the new
system.
At least the former allows efficient management of practice accounting
and dealing with errors. The new system is shamelessly geared to keeping
patients and the government happy.
Greg
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Canterbury Division of General Practice
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