Hi Horst,
Your application would generally only be delayed if you didn't send it in a
month before it was due or if there were errors with the application form
details as would of been advised to you by the Rural Workforce Agency.
Regards
Steve
I was just informed that my Medicare proivider number expired on Sunday,
and
that all PBS scripts I worte yesterday and today have to be paid in full
by
the patients (no PBS subsidy), and that th patients will not receive any
MBS
benefits for their consultations yesterday and today
I sent in my renewal application more than a month ago, and teh Medicare
provider section informed me on the phone 10 minutes ago that they indeed
received the application forwarded it to the DoHA last Tuesday and haven't
heard from them since.
Important: there is no reason whatsoever not to renew the provider number
I
had for the past 5 years - it is just bureaucratic delay caused by
departmental incompetence, laziness and procrastination which has already
once (7 years ago) cost me a whole month of MBS income
That will in fact leave Dorrigo incl. the whole Dorrigo Plateau (semi
isolated
area with some 4,000 patients) without medical services, because my part
time
ssociate will not work without my support
I would appreciate if anybody with influence, media, press would take this
matter up on behalf of myself and my patients, since the arrogant
bureaucracy
has decided not to be available to me on phone unless they can turf me off
to
yet another phone number and / or department. I had it, I quit. The
Australian health bureaucracy can play silly buggers without me, I have no
time for this nonsense.
Cheers,
Horst
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