کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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9382982 | 1279102 | 2005 | 14 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The decline in 'free' general practitioner care in Australia: reasons and repercussions
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت
پزشکی و دندانپزشکی
سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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چکیده انگلیسی
The Australian public insurer, Medicare, allows general practitioners (GPs) to bulk bill patients, or accept the government rebate as full payment for their services. The percentage of GP consultations bulk billed, however has declined from 78.6% in June 2000 to 65.7% in December 2003. The immediate impact of a declining level of bulk billing is a decrease in the availability of free GP health care for patients. This has implications for copayments and access to GPs for low income groups in particular. In this paper, we explore the reasons for and repercussions of the decline in bulk billing. We analyse two main reasons for the decline. The first is a failure of the rebate to maintain a level consistent with increases in medical practice costs. The second is a decline in GPs in some regional and rural areas resulting in a decrease in price competition. The government has recently made changes to deal with the decline in bulk billing and based on three quarters of data, there has been a modest improvement in bulk billing.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Health Policy - Volume 73, Issue 3, 8 September 2005, Pages 316-329
Journal: Health Policy - Volume 73, Issue 3, 8 September 2005, Pages 316-329
نویسندگان
Sandra Hopkins, Nathan Speed,