Australia's healthcare system is a one-of-a-kind mix of public and private services. Medicare is the universal public safety net, and there is also a large private health insurance market. Medicare ...

More than $115 million will be spent to integrate 520 Centrelink and Medicare Australia shopfronts. A four-year program has also been launched to allow customers to claim online. The new service will ...

"PERVERSE" incentives cost health care system billions, medical expert says, with some providers making $80K a day. n a scathing article for the Medical Journal of Australia published today, GP Dr ...

Medicare is 30 years old and is the scheme that publicly funds Australia’s universal health care system. Medicare has always generated political conflict. From 1972 to 1984 Australia became the first ...

Australia's top doctors are calling for a mammoth overhaul of the "out of date" Medicare system. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) today announced its Modernise Medicare proposal to address ...

Changes to Medicare bulk billing might mean you have a better chance of seeing a doctor without having to pay the gap under the government's new incentives. Hello, I'm Lisa, a journalist at The Senior ...

A new study led by Flinders University researchers has found that Medicare restrictions are preventing many homebound Australians from accessing telehealth services. Their findings underscored the ...