Has your clinic or practice heard about MyMedicare? It’s a new voluntary patient registration program designed to connect you with your patients.
Why does it matter to me and my clinic or practice? Clinics and practices registered in MyMedicare will be able to access a range of new funding and incentives that can help you continue to provide the very best care for your patients. These include new, longer telephone calls for eligible patients, tripling the amount of existing MBS bulk billing incentive payments for longer telehealth consultations for your regular patients, the General Practice in Aged Care Incentive which will support regular doctor visits for people in residential aged care homes, and linking chronic disease management items to a patient's registration. This means that while chronic disease management items will be available to everyone, registered patients will only be able to access these items from their registered clinic or practice to better support the delivery of this care.
I’ve registered my clinical or practice, what else do I need to do? For everyone to benefit your doctors and patients also need to be linked once your clinic or practice is registered. So it's important to encourage your patients to register in MyMedicare. This can be done by the patient through their Medicare online account or Express Plus Medicare mobile app. Or you can help them fill out a registration form at your clinic or practice and put these details into the MyMedicare system.
Where do I get more detail and information? For help registering in MyMedicare, you can contact Services Australia who can support you through registration and answer any of your questions.
Better connections, better funding, better care.
Register your clinic or practice and patients in MyMedicare today.