Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2017
Government parks scheme to contain costs of Medicare safety net, while doctors continue to raise fees
14 April 2017 - Some doctors have increased their fees by up to 400%, knowing the bill would be footed by taxpayers and not their price sensitive customers.
The federal government has parked its attempts to rein in the Extended Medicare Safety Net, despite a blowout in costs that the Department of Health warned in 2015 was largely the result of medical practitioners increasing their prices.
It will not be included in the May budget.
