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Australia working towards 'permanent' telehealth

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Since last year March, over 16 million patients have received over 80 million COVID-19 telehealth services under the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS). million) for the Workforce Incentive Programme which will provide additional funding to general practices by adding telehealth items in the calculation of Standard Whole Patient Equivalent.

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Rethinking approaches to remote health and telehealth in Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” Nespolon agreed, adding that general practice needs to be freed from its current regulatory and financial constraints and that’s something that needs to be worked towards. “Medicare and Medibank were set up as face-to-face systems and they still are face-to-face systems.