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Outcomes of the September 2023 PBAC intracycle meeting
13 October 2023 - The outcomes from the September 2023 PBAC intracycle meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2022
Budget October 2022–23: strengthening Medicare
25 October 2022 - The Australian Government’s 2022-23 Budget begins the task of strengthening Medicare after a decade of cuts and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2022
GPs demand action to fix ‘disintegrating’ Medicare
17 August 2022 - Doctors have issued the federal government with an urgent demand for more Medicare funding, warning general ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2022
One stop shop in Medicare shake-up
16 August 2022 - Doctors may be able to spend more time with patients, treat patients after-hours, and employ nurses, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2021
Overcharging doctors exposed under Medical Cost Finder revamp
28 June 2021 - A new government website will expose Australian doctors who are overcharging their patients and reveal the stingiest ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2021
Health care funding decisions and real world benefits: reducing bias by matching untreated patients
14 June 2021 - Governments and health insurers often make funding decisions based on health gains from randomised controlled trials. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2019
Medicare bill ‘puts every Australian at risk’
28 November 2019 - A new Medicare anti-fraud bill would put the privacy of every Australian at risk and create ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2019
Blair had private health insurance — but his cancer treatment still cost almost $1,000 a week
24 October 2019 - It is Anzac Day 2017, and Blair Meldrum cannot get out of bed. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2019
Bev takes 14 pills a day. She's far from alone.
15 July 2019 - She is among the more than one-in-three Australians aged over 70 who take five or more different ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Oct 2018
Is 'lowest cost alternative' rapidly becoming the most common main comparator accepted by the PBAC?
29 October 2018 - Further analysis of the first round of Public Summary Documents from the July 2018 PBAC meeting ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2018
Health data governance enforceable undertaking for re-identification of MBS/PBS data
3 May 2018 - The Australian Information Commissioner has concluded an investigation into the re-identification of Medicare service provider data ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Apr 2018
Hunter cystic fibrosis patients rally for access to “wonder drug” Orkambi
30 April 2018 - Verity Chappell was “shattered” when she had to puncture daughter Tylah’s 15th birthday with news the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2018
Mediscare merchants bid up private health insurance premiums
7 February 2018 - As the political author of the original "Mediscare" that has given the Australian Medical Association (the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2018
Thank Mediscare for high private health insurance premiums
6 February 2018 - In last year's Budget, the government declared open season on the banks. Why? Because they made ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Not so anonymous: Medicare data can be used to identify individual patients, researchers say
18 December 2017 - Researchers say they can identify individuals in government healthcare data that was supposed to be anonymous, ...