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Fee-for-service still a must in GP payment arrangements: Australian Medicine
This week’s issue of Australian Medicine reports that doctors and health organisations have demanded that fee-for-service must be retained as part of any overhaul of doctor payment arrangements amid concerns that other models of remuneration could create perverse incentives that would undermine patient health.
Other stories in Australian Medicine this week include:
- National network of dedicated doctor health services a major advance;
- Forcing GPs to adopt half-baked e-health record a dud idea: AMA;
- A lifetime of jabs to be on the record;
- Domestic violence victims urged: talk to your doctor
- Patients, hospitals to carry the cost of MBS Review;
- Mental health system crisis deepens as Government dithers;
- Government’s 10-year plan to achieve Indigenous health goals;
