Medicare & RACGP will be at the GPCE in Sydney next month. I'll be visiting them both about this issue. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Pity the AMA won't be there, but then they never do any good for GP's in any case.
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Twyford Sent: Monday, 16 April 2007 10:18 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Electronic Medicare Claiming / EasyClaim 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 -- Greg Twyford Information Management & Technology Program Officer Canterbury Division of General Practice E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.: 02 9787 9033 Fax: 02 9787 9200 PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL *********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail and their attached files, including replies and forwarded copies, are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged or prohibited from disclosure and unauthorised use. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon this message or its attachments is prohibited. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
