Telehealth not Included in SWPE – Reduced PIP Payments
At a time when General Practice is working harder than ever to ensure that Australians are vaccinated the Federal Government has decided to cut funding to General Practices.
Is the PIP QI important?
/0 Comments/in NEWS & ARTICLES, PIP QI Posts /by Richard HartOliver Frank *
Practices participating in the QI PIP will receive 70 cents or less per consultation, if one divides the $5.00 per patient per year offered by the scheme by the average of seven visits per year that Australians make to general practice. For practices with more than 10,000 SWPEs (standardised whole patient equivalent), the payment per consultation is likely to be less than 70 cents, because the QI PIP payment is capped at $50,000 per practice per year. Apart from being able to receive this relatively small amount of money, are there any other reasons why GPs should or would see this new scheme as important?
Read moreLetter to GPs
/0 Comments/in NEWS & ARTICLES, PIP QI Posts /by Richard HartJohn Deery, Chair, AGPA
Some of you may be wondering why AGPA wrote directly to the profession last month calling for an end to the disrespect of General Practice by successive governments. The simple answer is that it was overdue.
The reality is that running a GP practice in Australia has become increasingly problematical in the face of issues such as the Medicare freeze, changes to rebate rates in various geographical areas, restrictions on the GP workforce, and the attempts to cut a sweetheart deal with pathology on co-location rentals. The cavalier attitude adopted to the legitimate fears over access to patient and practice data inherent in the PIP QI arrangements is just the latest example of a failure to listen to General Practice.
Read morePIP QI – AGPA makes progress
/0 Comments/in NEWS & ARTICLES, PIP QI Posts /by adminThe PIP QI program went live on 1 August 2019.
The AGPA and a group of concerned Doctors reviewed the data collection arrangements for the program and determined that there were significant privacy issues for patient and Practice information.
The Department of Health has now released a new set of guidelines which addresses many of the issues raised by the AGPA.
A win for common sense.
About AGPA
The Australian General Practice Alliance was formed in 2016 to represent the interests of GP practice owners. While the initial trigger for the formation of the AGPA was the attacks on General Practice by the Australian Government and big business pathology, our aim is to address the issues that face principal led General Practices.
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