Journal article
Medicare billing, law and practice: complex, incomprehensible and beginning to unravel
Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol.27(1), pp.66-93
2019
PMID: 31682343
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Abstract
Australia's Medicare is still widely considered one of the world's best health systems. However, continual political tinkering for 40 years has led to a medical billing and payment system that has become labyrinthine in its complexity and is more vulnerable to abuse now, from all stakeholders, than when first introduced. Continuing to make alterations to Medicare without addressing underlying structural issues, may compound Australia's health reform challenges, increase the incidence of non-compliance and expenditure and thwart necessary reforms to develop a modern, data-driven, digitally informed health system. For the medical practitioners who are required to navigate the increasing complexity and relentless change, they will remain at high risk of investigation and prosecution in what has become an anarchic operating environment that they cannot avoid, but do not understand.
Details
- Title
- Medicare billing, law and practice: complex, incomprehensible and beginning to unravel
- Creators
- Margaret Faux - University of Technology SydneyJon Wardle - University of Technology SydneyJon Adams - University of Technology Sydney
- Publication Details
- Journal of Law and Medicine, Vol.27(1), pp.66-93
- Identifiers
- 991012865800502368
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine; School of Health and Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article