More doctors in Melbourne suburbs are charging gap fees, resulting in 107 fewer fully bulk-billing GP clinics in Victoria compared to last year.
Patients in Victoria have 107 fewer fully bulk-billing GP clinics than a little over a year ago, as more doctors in the middle- and lower-income suburbs of Melbourne start charging gap fees .
The biggest year-on-year changes were in several suburban Melbourne electorates – Menzies, Fraser, Chisholm, Gorton, Hotham and Calwell – where more than 20 per cent of clinics stopped bulk-billing all their patients, according to data offering a fresh snapshot into the rising out-of-pocket costs people face to see a GP. A patient is bulk-billed when Medicare rebates cover the full cost of a doctor’s visit with no gap fees. In the eastern suburbs seat of Menzies, 36 per cent of GP clinics said they bulk-billed all their patients at the start of last year. By the end of the year, it was 10 per cen
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