Telehealth Service Incentives encourage Eligible Practitioners (specialist and patient-end practitioner) to continue to provide Telehealth Services. Medicare Australia automatically accrues Telehealth Service Incentives to a practitioner each time a Medicare benefit is paid for a Telehealth MBS Item billed against their provider number (by using bulk billing and patient claims data). Practitioners then receive a single payment each quarter for all Telehealth Service Incentives they have accrued.
2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
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Telehealth Service(Patient-end) | $40 | $32 | $26 | $22 |
Telehealth Services(Specialist) | $60 | $48 | $39 | $33 |