Lisa Meyer

Aug 30, 2023 | pinsentmasons.com | Lisa Meyer |Adam Cain |Alexander Karst

Under the bulk-billing regime, patients are able to access healthcare services at no additional cost to the patient. Instead, healthcare providers bill Medicare directly and receive a standard rebate as full payment for services provided. A number of factors lie behind this movement away from bulk billing, but the primary one is that the Medicare rebate is simply no longer adequate to keep up with the costs of running a practice.