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Medicare Australia

September 2024

  • Stock image of female doctor talking to older patient

    GP visits costing Australians more than ever, survey finds

  • Female doctor gives a male patient a blood pressure test

    Queensland LNP promise voters ‘cheaper GP visits’ but Miles government calls it ‘nonsense’

August 2024

  • Coroners court of Victoria

    Siya was born in Melbourne but excluded from Medicare. A coroner says this contributed to her death 23 days later

  • Australia is short about 2,460 full-time GPs, with a government report predicting this will rise to 5,560 by 2033.

    Regional and remote Australia most at risk as report warns of worsening GP shortfall

June 2024

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    Only 20 doctors listing fees on Australian government’s $24m medical costs comparison website

    Disclosure in Senate estimates comes in response to David Pocock’s questions about ‘astounding’ out of pocket fees for private surgery in ACT

May 2024

  • woman feels throat

    Testing and treatment for underactive thyroid is increasing in Australia. Why?

  • Electricity wire towers at sunset

    Federal budget 2024 – winners and losers summary

April 2024

  • Mark Butler at a press conference

    Bulk-billed GP visits rise after introduction of incentives for doctors, data shows

    Doctors’ groups say improved rate is ‘encouraging’ but more investment in health system is needed
  • Close up of a dentistry procedure

    Online ads promote ‘simple’ access to super to pay for healthcare, despite strict rules

    Peak consumer body and financial services minister warn against private providers encouraging patients to tap into super to fund medical procedures
  • Ultrasound exam

    Australian women continue to pay more for basic healthcare – it’s time to stop Medicare’s gender bias

    Nisha Khot
    The rebate scheme has gender inequity baked into its very core – an urgent review is needed to correct it

February 2024

  • Composite image featuring (L-R) The Australian Health Minister, Mark Butler, atop a stock photo of a Medicare card

    Australia lost hundreds of fully subsidised GP clinics in the past year – how does your area rank?

    Guardian data analysis finds the number of dedicated bulk-billing practices has fallen dramatically, with a 28% drop in one electorate
  • Australian Health Minister Mark Butler speaks at an event to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of medicare at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, February 6, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch ) NO ARCHIVING

    Subsidised psychologist sessions plummet amid calls on Labor to reinstate extra Medicare visits

    Health minister resists push to boost number of sessions to 20 as new data shows visits have dropped by almost quarter of a million
  • Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong (left) and defence minister Richard Marles (second from right) and) meet with their New Zealand counterparts, Winston Peters and Judith Collins, in Melbourne on Thursday.

    Australia news live
    New Zealand to be briefed on Aukus – as it happened

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January 2024

  • Three office workers stand in front of a 'Medicare' sign with a booklet in one of their hands

    Medicare turns 40: is Australia’s ‘little green card’ keeping up with changing health needs?

    Medicare’s universality under threat as chronic disease, mental illness and an aging population increase out-of-pocket costs, experts say
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    Health minister tells Australians to ‘ring around’ to find GPs who bulk bill

    Mark Butler says doctors look to have made a ‘significant return to bulk billing’ but patients should ‘vote with your feet’ if their clinic doesn’t
  • Doctor holding a stethoscope

    Rate of GPs bulk billing all patients in Australia drops to below one in four, data reveals

    Cleanbill report reveals national rate of bulk billing dropped 11% last year to 23.6%, with 514 clinics removing the service

December 2023

  • The thresholds for Medicare safety nets will increase as of 1 January, which means an increase in the amount people have to spend on out-of-hospital medical expenses before qualifying for a higher rebate

    From Medicare to preschool: the Australian laws changing in the new year

  • Anthony Albanese with the premiers and chief ministers of the territories at a press conference at Parliament House on Wednesday

    Albanese strikes $10.5bn deal with states to split cost of non-NDIS disability services in return for GST funding

November 2023

  • Unrecognizable doctor consulting patient. Giving piece of paper with instructions and recommendations<br>Unrecognizable female doctor consulting patient. Giving instructions and recommendations. Medical symptom diagnostic. Questioning about treatment. Clinical reception

    Number of GPs bulk billing all patients halved over last year, report finds

  • Federal health minister Mark Butler in parliament

    Patients warned many doctors won’t change approach to bulk billing despite new incentives

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