Multiple stakeholders agree that #Medicare is in crisis.
The cause? Well, that’s a Diagnostic Dilemma.
While arguments on who is to blame can continue ad infinitum, it’s best for our patients that we work together to save Medicare & address major healthcare workforce problems.
It’s evident that some Medicare data doesn’t match what’s seem on the ground.
GP bulk billing rates of 89.6% in the July 2021 quarter? Sounds great, but the devil is always in the (very complex Medicare) data.
Healthcare is complex.
Incentivising & delivering high value care is difficult.
Change is hard.
Delivering quality healthcare is a struggle with workforce challenges & massive deferred & delayed care burdens.
The Government has a budget problem.
There are no simple solutions.
But it’s safe to say that a “blame pathway” isn’t going to lead us out of the current quagmire.
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1.1 Health care resources need to be appropriately managed so that all patients can continue to receive the best quality care, now and in the future.
1.2 Individual doctors (medical practitioners) affect health care expenditure through their clinical
recommendations and decisions regarding patient treatment. As such, doctors have an important role as stewards of health care resources.
NB. Elective category 2 & 3 surgery is essential surgery. It diagnoses & it cures cancer. It treats disability, so people can return to walking, working, running & living. It is not optional surgery.
I’m operating this morning so may have to halt this tweet stream midstream but want to talk about My Health Record and #optoutMHR.
By way of disclosure, I was invited on an ADHA Committee about MyHR last year. It’s unpaid & I’ve never attended because I’m already fully booked with patients when they announce the meeting dates. Also, I’m an AMA Federal Councillor. The AMA is broadly in favour of a national
medical record, but I make these tweets as a private citizen & surgeon, not because I’m AMA affiliated. Also, I did a project on MyHR last year with non-directed funding from @avantmutual - a practice grant that supported a study into MyHR implementation in specialist practice.