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Calls to allow private health insurance to cover fee gaps
24 January 2023 - Health funds are pushing to be able to cover doctors’ gap fees as part of national ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jan 2023
Modernising the Prostheses List Committee process
17 January 2023 - The Australian Government will modernise the existing committee process for prostheses applications through the new Medical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2022
National DNA screening could save lives for people with high risk hereditary disease gene variants
7 December 2022 - The DNA Screen study offers free DNA screening for high risk hereditary disease gene variants to 10,000 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2022
New prostate cancer treatment helping patients live longer, better
27 November 2022 - A treatment that could allow advanced prostate cancer patients to avoid chemotherapy and live longer has arrived ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Nov 2022
MSAC Secretariat publishes agenda for March 2023 MSAC meeting
23 November 2022 - The MSAC Secretariat has published a list of applications scheduled to be considered by the MSAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2022
Government supporting Australians living with type 1 diabetes
13 November 2022 - The Albanese Government is changing the lives for the 130,000 Australians living with type 1 diabetes by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Nov 2022
MSAC can't find a place for Carvykti
10 November 2022 - The outcome from Janssen's application requesting the public funding of ciltacabtagene autoleucel for the treatment of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2022
Independent review into Medicare compliance
5 November 2022 - The Albanese Government has appointed respected health economist Dr Pradeep Philip to conduct an independent review into ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2022
MSAC Secretariat tweaks the agenda for Dec 2022 PASC meeting
26 October 2022 - The PASC will consider one more application. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2022
‘Distressed and appalled’: eye doctor sees red at overcharging by peers
25 October 2022 - Central Queensland eye surgeon David Kitchen has had enough of long-term, rampant rorting by some of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2022
MSAC recommends targeted carrier testing of certain ethic people for severe monogenic conditions
20 October 2022 - An 'eventful' week for Jewish people in Australia. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2022
MSAC publishes outcome for Mackenzie's mission
19 October 2022 - Mackenzie’s Mission is a research study providing reproductive genetic carrier screening to up to 10,000 couples across ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2022
MSAC publishes agenda for February 2023 ESC meeting
19 October 2022 - The MSAC Secretariat has published a list of applications scheduled to be considered by the ESC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Oct 2022
MSAC finally recommends genomic testing for certain women with breast cancer
18 October 2022 - A third application from Mryriad Genetics seeking the MBS listing of its gene expression profiling test ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2022
Medicare rorts expose inflated bulk billing rates
18 October 2022 - Systemic rorting of Medicare is artificially inflating official statistics that claim almost nine out of 10 ...