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  • Subsidising PBS medicine co-payments
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Indigenous Chronic Disease Package

Registering your practice/service for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive

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The Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Indigenous Health Incentive is administered through Medicare Australia on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

The PIP Indigenous Health Incentive provides payments to support general practices and Indigenous Health Services to provide better health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This includes best practice management of chronic disease.

To register for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive, practices/services, must be accredited, or registered for accreditation, against the RACGP Standards for General Practices.

As shown in Table 1, there are three components to payments under the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive: a ‘sign-on’ incentive payment, a patient registration payment, and annual ‘outcomes’ payments.

Table 1: Payments and requirements of the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive

Component	Payment	Activity required for payment
Sign-on Payment	$1,000 per practice/service	One-off payment to practices/services that agree to undertake specified activities to improve the provision of care to their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients with a chronic disease.
Patient Registration Payment	$250 per eligible patient per calendar year	A payment to practices/services for each Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patient aged 15 years and over, registered with the practice for chronic disease management.
Outcomes Payment Total: $250	Tier 1: $100 per eligible patient per calendar year	Payment to practices/service for each registered patient for whom a target level of care is provided by the practice in a calendar year.
	Tier 2: $150 per eligible patient per calendar year	Payment to practices/services for providing the majority of care for a registered patient in a calendar year.

Further information and the PIP application forms are available on the Medicare Australia website at: www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pip

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