1B - Medicare and PIPQI
Track 2
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 |
| 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
| Hall B |
Speaker
Dr Sarah Mahoney
Medical Advisor
Department of Health
Appropriate MBS claiming in the changing general practice landscape
10:00 AM - 10:45 AMSummary
This session will cover the overarching compliance program of the Division and how this protects Australia’s health payments system through the prevention, identification and treatment of incorrect claiming, inappropriate practice and fraud by health care providers and suppliers.
Biography
Dr Sarah Mahoney is a Medical Adviser with the Department of Health. She is a general practitioner with over 30 years clinical experience in a variety of settings including rural and urban general practice, emergency medicine and early detection of breast cancer. She also has an extensive background in clinical education, including coordinating clinical practice training at the University of Melbourne and as Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Onkaparinga Clinical Education Program in the Flinders University MD program.
Dr Michael Wright
Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Funding and Health System Reform
RACGP
Practice Incentive Payment Quality Improvement (PIPQI)
10:45 AM - 11:30 AMSummary
This session aims to demystify the PIPQI by providing delegates with all of the relevant information on the new incentive as well as real-life examples of how GPs are implementing quality improvement in their practice.
Biography
Dr Michael Wright is a GP and health economics researcher.
Dr Wright is Chair of the RACGP Expert Committee, Funding and Health System Reform and Deputy Chair Person of the NSW and ACT Faculty Council. Currently working part-time in general practice in Woollahra, Sydney, Dr Wright has previously been employed in the UK National Health Service, been a practice owner, a salaried GP and GP contractor. Michael’s research interests include investigating the value of continuity of care in Australian general practice (the subject of his PhD), and funding reforms to the Australian health system.
As well as being a busy GP and RACGP Fellow, Dr Wright holds many other roles in the health system including a research position at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at the University of Technology, Sydney and Chair of the Chair of the Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network (CESPHN).
Dr Wright is Chair of the RACGP Expert Committee, Funding and Health System Reform and Deputy Chair Person of the NSW and ACT Faculty Council. Currently working part-time in general practice in Woollahra, Sydney, Dr Wright has previously been employed in the UK National Health Service, been a practice owner, a salaried GP and GP contractor. Michael’s research interests include investigating the value of continuity of care in Australian general practice (the subject of his PhD), and funding reforms to the Australian health system.
As well as being a busy GP and RACGP Fellow, Dr Wright holds many other roles in the health system including a research position at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at the University of Technology, Sydney and Chair of the Chair of the Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network (CESPHN).
A/Prof Mark Morgan
Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Bond University & RACGP Expert Committee for Quality Care
Practice Incentive Payment Quality Improvement (PIPQI)
10:45 AM - 11:30 AMSummary
This session aims to demystify the PIPQI by providing delegates with all of the relevant information on the new incentive as well as real-life examples of how GPs are implementing quality improvement in their practice.
Biography
Dr Rob Hosking
Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Practice Technology and Management
RACGP
Practice Incentive Payment Quality Improvement (PIPQI)
10:45 AM - 11:30 AMSummary
This session aims to demystify the PIPQI by providing delegates with all of the relevant information on the new incentive as well as real-life examples of how GPs are implementing quality improvement in their practice.
Biography
Rob Hosking has been interested in eHealth since commencing practice in Bacchus Marsh in Victoria in 1990.
He gained his Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics from Monash University in 2000.
Rob was chair of the Privacy and Security working group of the General Practice Computing Group. He has also been a National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) Clinical lead and has worked on a number of eHealth related committees at NPS MedicineWise and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.
Rob has been a member of the RACGP National Standing Committee for eHealth since 2008 and has recently become the chair of that Committee, which has been renamed the RACGP Expert Committee – Practice Technology and Management.
