15 August 2022 - Doctors expect the national bulk-billing rate may plunge to as little as 30% within two years unless urgent action is taken, as new data from hundreds of the nation’s biggest medical centres casts doubt on the veracity of ­official Medicare records.

Health Minister Mark Butler says the presentation of Medicare’s figures by governments has sugar-coated the true state of primary health care and he has ­ordered his department to review the “skewed” official data that states 88 per cent of all GP attendances are bulk-billed.

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