Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Just to explain the software, Easyclaim will basically mean you will have a Medicare office in every doctor’s surgery. This is something we have been pursuing for some time and it is being rolled out from later this year. It is electronically done in the surgery. I presume your electorate is like mine, where some doctors require everyone to pay up-front and then go to the Medicare office; others take part of the payment and get the rest later. This software will mean that those claims can be processed right there and then electronically, and it will roll out. If we did not have that, I would fully support your request to have a Medicare office, but I think your constituents will find—presuming that that starts to come into play later this year in your electorate and, if not, certainly early next year, well before we could actually get a Medicare office locked in—that their needs will be more than adequately met. In fact, a superior service is what it turns out to be, and it is because the doctor’s surgeries are now working with the Commonwealth to make this a reality.

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