Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
Identifying and signing up eligible patients
Table of contents
- Improve your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients’ health
- GP and Patient Journey flowchart
How to participate in this program- 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
Initiatives under the Package have varying eligibility requirements. Patients need to:
• be Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander;
• be over 15 years of age (this applies to the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive but not to the PBS Co-payment measure);
• have a current Medicare card; and
• have a chronic disease (for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive and PBS Co-payment measure) or be at risk of or have chronic disease (for the PBS Co-payment measure).
To determine whether your patient is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin, you need to ask ALL your patients if they identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, see Patient Identification Detail Card 2.