Kimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability) Share this | Hansard source

The ALP's position on the Health Insurance Amendment (General Practitioners and Quality Assurance) Bill 2020 is that GPs are eligible for higher Medicare rebates if they are fellows of the GP colleges and meet the ongoing continuing professional development requirements. The current system for determining eligibility for those higher rebates is administered by Services Australia and duplicates the separate requirements of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. This bill removes the requirement for eligible GPs to register with Services Australia and instead ties eligibility for higher Medicare rebates to the existing scheme. This is a sensible change and Labor will support this bill.