Seeing a medical specialist is getting more expensive. Out-of-pocket costs have risen at more than triple the rate of inflation in six years.
Australians are spending an average $83 to see a medical specialist after out-of-pocket costs increased at more than triple the rate of inflation in six years.
The data, which is based on the electorate of the patient, does not include the out-of-pocket cost of having a surgical procedure, which can run into the tens of thousands of dollars including anaesthetist and hospital fees. Specialists were the least likely to bulk bill patient consultations in the wealthy electorates of Curtin , Moore , Warringah , MacKellar , Tangney , Bradfield , Ryan , Kooyong , Goldstein and North Sydney , doing so in between 10.3 per and 13.7 per cent of cases.
There were also significant increases in the rural Victorian electorates of Bendigo , Corangamite and Corio .
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