Fees
The fees billing & payment is included in this page. All information about the cost, price and charges can be found here.
Practice Fee's
Read Street Medical & Skin Centre is a Fully Private Billing practice. All fees are payable at the time of consultation. Fees can be paid by cash, EFTPOS and credit card (Visa and Mastercard).
Age Pension Card Holders will be offered Bulk Billing Services after 3 (Three) Private Standard Consults a year.
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card Holders will be offered Bulk Billing Services after 5 (Five) Private Standard Consults a year.
Health Care Card Holders will be offered a reduced concession fee.
Children Under 16 with Medicare Cards will be offered Bulk Billing Services after 2 (Two) Private Standard Consults a year.
DVA Gold Card patients are Bulked Billed at all times.
DVA White Card patients are Bulked Billed for their approved conditions only.
The fees billing & payment is included in this page. All information about the cost, price and charges can be found here.
| Type | $ | $ | $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short (<5 minutes) | |||
| Standard (10 minutes) | |||
| Long (20 minutes) | |||
| Prolonged (40 minutes) |
| Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Short (<5 minutes) | |||
| Standard (10 minutes) | |||
| Long (20 minutes) | |||
| Prolonged (40 minutes) |
| Type | |
|---|---|
| Standard Consultation | |
| Long Consultation |
* Fees are as per consult time above depending on the length of time required to check all of your moles and address your concerns.
| Type | |
|---|---|
| Standard Consultation |
* Not Medicare Rebatable & any travel vaccines administered will incur additional fees.
| Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | |||
| Long |
To comply with Medicare Rules, we are unable to Bulk Bill any procedures. Please ask your doctor for a quote prior to a procedure.
Skin Cancer Excisions will be charged according to the appropriate Medicare Item Number after the biopsy results comes back. There will be an out-of-pocket charge on top of the Medicare item number rebate. Ask your Clinician for an estimate.
In general, your out-of-pocket PER billing item are as follows:
| Type | $ |
|---|---|
| Non-concession patients | |
| Concession card holders |
All Surgical Procedures attract a Procedural Consumable Fee of $70, which is not Medicare rebatable.
| Type | |
|---|---|
| Aviation Medical | |
| ECG for Aviation Medical |
* Please note that CASA medicals and ECGs are not medicare rebateable and are purely private fees.
All Non Government vaccinations and consumable items will have fee’s applied as appropriate.
Non aged pensioner health care card holders will be offered a reduced billing fee. Please contact reception for details.
Concession card holders (i.e. Health care cards, pension cards & etc) are billed at a reduced rate.
The fees billing & payment is included in this page. All information about the cost, price and charges can be found here.
Bulk Billing Policy
Clinicians practicing here offer bulk billing services to ONLY the following category of patient:
| Category | |
|---|---|
| Age pension card holders | |
| Veteran affairs patient | |
| Children under 16 years old |
The first 2 (TWO) standard consults will be privately billed. Following that, all other consults will be bulk billed for the year until the next new year cycle.
All Aged Pension Card holders:
The first 3 (three) standard consults for the year will be privately billed. Following that, all other consults will be bulk billed for the year until the next new year cycle (Starts on the 1st of January every year).
All Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders:
The first 5 (five) standard consults for the year will be privately billed. Following that, all other consults will be bulk billed for the year until the next new year cycle (Starts on the 1st of January every year)
All GP Management Plans (Care Plans), Team Care Arrangements and Health Assessments (eg. Over 75 Health Assessments) are Bulked Billed.
Note: GP Mental Health Plans are Privately Billed.
Veteran with gold card are bulk billed. Veterans with white card are bulk billed only for specific areas.
The payments are based on a calendar year and will be collected them during patient’s first visits for the year.
* The practice does not bulk bill patients seen after 5pm on weekdays and on Saturdays.
Telehealth Consultation
All Telehealth consultations via telephone or video are subjected to the same billing policy as our face-to-face consults.
Please note: Medicare Rules only allows rebates for patients seen who had been seen by a tenant GP (or another tenant GP servicing from this location) in the last 12 months. If you are new to the practice, and telehealth is your first visit, you will not be able to claim a Medicare rebate and will be privately billed. Please be aware.
