Health
Push for telehealth extension during virus – Education – Australian Associated Press
The Australian Medical Association is pushing for Medicare-subsidised telehealth services to continue until March next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Doctors are urging the Morrison government to extend Medicare-subsidised telehealth services as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
The service is due to end September 30 but the government has said it will consider an extension on the advice of an expert medical panel.
Australian Medical Association president Omar Khorshid says the September deadline was decided when there was optimism the nation would be over the worst of coronavirus.
“We now know that the virus will be with us well past th…
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