Sentence examples for bulk billed from inspiring English sources

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) argues bulk-billing statistics are misleading because 83% of services, not patients, are bulk billed.

That's $7 a pop from July 2015 for patients who are normally bulk billed.

For many of the patients who are now bulk billed, those costs will be unaffordable.

The report acknowledged it was "true that 86.1% of general practice services are bulk billed" but said "the proportion of patients fully bulk billed (and who therefore face no out-of-pocket costs for care) is actually much lower".

A patient who was previously bulk billed would therefore face upfront costs of between $1,352 and $1,656, and be left with out-of-pocket costs of between $90 and $393 after receiving their Medicare rebates.

A patient who was previously bulk billed faces upfront costs of between $282 and $554 and still be left $29 to $302 out of pocket after receiving all the Medicare rebates.

More than 30% of doctors say they will have to stop bulk billing all patients due to the Medicare rebate indexation freeze, a survey by a doctors' group has warned.

The society's vice-president, Dr Con Costa, said "because of the cuts we've seen under this government, many doctors are telling us that they will stop bulk billing all patients".

Shorten said that not all doctors will bulk-bill but patients will have "more choices".

He rejected their assessment that the new policy would actively discourage doctors from bulk-billing their needy patients.

Practice factors included rurality/urbanicity, practice size (number of GPs), and if the practice routinely bulk-bills (that is, there is no financial cost to the patient for the consultation).