General Medical issues thread

[RooFlyer]

Got the email today from said local clinic to register for "My Medicare" as primary GP. Understand "continuity of care" but will continue with old mate in town till he retires which will be in the next few years methinks.

Yes, the reason I found out about it was that there was a prompt in the Hotdoc reminder I got for an appointment I have with the GP next Monday.

I can’t see myself using myMedicare but I might do a bit more digging.

 

[Aeryn]

There is no downside to My Medicare, register your main GP and you get benefit of no/smaller gap because they get more govt funding for registered patients, but if you need to go somewhere else you still get the usual rebate.

 

[Pushka]

I have, but it's meaningless where I go. I'm fortunate not to need a doctor very often, so by the time I go back, the Dr I registered with has moved on (rural practice.)

Yes. We pay exactly the same gap as Joe Blow off the street. Maybe that means they are getting double benefit if the government is supplemting them through my registration. Maybe I should cancel.