Medicare – Op Ed by Crispin Hull

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Medicare

OpEd for 30 July 2024

By Crispin Hull

Medicare is in urgent need of some CPR. Not just the pulmonary and cardio, but a resuscitation of every part of the human body and the medical procedures that can be applied to it.

The death by a thousand cuts of Australia’s once proud universal free medical insurance scheme continued unabated this month.

The annual inflation adjustment applied to the schedule of fees was set at 3.5 per cent – once again below the real rate. And it was not applied to all items.

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AGPA Webinar – Fraud and Theft Prevention

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AGPA Webinar

Fraud & Theft Prevention

Thursday 22 August 2024, 7:30pm AEST

7:00 pm SA, 5:30 pm WA

 

Speakers

Loryn Einstein – Medical Billing Experts

Gavin Andrews – Port Melbourne Medical  

 Fraud and theft is a risk for any business and GP Practices with large numbers of daily transactions are as vulnerable as any. The consequences for ruined lives, financial and reputational loss and the destruction of trust and teamwork are expensive and time consuming. There are typical causes and symptoms that can be identified and business practices that can be adopted to reduce risk.

The speakers have extensive experience in fraud prevention and investigation.

This is a rare opportunity to become better informed on the typical vulnerabilities of GP Practices and the business processes and practices that can be adopted to prevent fraud and protect your Practice.

Book at

https://www.trybooking.com/CTWOD

This event will be free

to AGPA members.

AGPA non Members $50

 

 

 

Cubiko Ownership

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On 28 May 2025 the Australian GP Alliance (AGPA)  wrote to members advising it had come to our attention that that the medical data analytics  application Cubiko is ultimately majority owned by medical corporate Sonic Holdings.

The majority ownership by Sonic was believed to have occurred approximately 12 months earlier. The Cubiko website currently states that this controlling interest occurred in April 2023.

Sonic Holdings are a major operator in the Australian Healthcare Sector with approximately 35% of the pathology services. Their website states that they have over 200 GP clinics trading as Sonic HealthPlus, Australian Skin Cancer Clinics and IPN Medical Services.

AGPA expressed its concern that at the time of Sonic taking a controlling interest there was no advice to Cubiko users and while the Cubiko website states that Sonic Holdings have no access to data the lack of transparency is concerning.

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