Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
Step 2. Offer health checks to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients in your care
Table of contents
- Improve your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients’ health
- GP and Patient Journey flowchart
How to participate in this program- Step 1. Register the practice/service with Medicare as a participant in the Practice Incentives Program Indigenous Health Incentive
- Step 2. Offer health checks to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients in your care
- Step 3. Develop a care plan for patients with a chronic disease
- Step 4. Provide ongoing monitoring of ‘at risk of chronic disease’ patients
- Step 5. Re-register patients annually for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive
- Registering your practice/service for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive
- Registering your eligible patients for the PBS Co-payment measure
- Cultural awareness training: who needs it?
- Defining ‘chronic disease’ and ‘at risk’
Identifying and signing up eligible patients- Specialist Outreach Programs and Care Coordination
- Indigenous Health Project Officers: A resource for General Practices and Indigenous Health Services
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Workers
- Chronic disease self-management accredited training for staff
- National Tackling Smoking Workforce
- Healthy Lifestyle Workers
- MBS Item numbers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services
- General restrictions
Encourage your Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients to participate in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessment and, if required, ongoing management of risk factors for a chronic condition.
Benefits to the practice/service:
This provides an opportunity to identify patients who could be registered for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive.Each Medical Benefits Schedule Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Assessment (MBS Item 715) attracts MBS benefits.
3 Department of Health and Ageing 2010. Practice Incentives Program: Indigenous Health Incentives Guidelines, March 2010.