Home Organisations Health professionals Practitioners in Indigenous health Practitioners in Indigenous health Payments and programs for health professionals delivering services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Tasks Subscribe for news We'll send you regular news highlights Renew your ACC Apply early for your Approved Collection Centre renewal PRODA Learn how to create and use an account Services, payments and programs Closing the Gap - PBS Co-payment Measure The CTG PBS Co-payment Measure improves access to PBS medicines for eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living with, or at risk of, chronic disease. Disability Support Pension information for health professionals Information for health professionals whose patients are applying for Disability Support Pension (DSP). Indigenous Access Program for health professionals There are a range of health measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. We provide health assessments and a health check for adults. Remote Area Aboriginal Health Services (RAAHS or AHS) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme RAAHS provide eligible Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines for free to patients in remote areas. Rural Procedural Grants Program Provides financial assistance to procedural and emergency medicine general practitioners (GPs) who provide services in rural and remote areas. Workforce Incentive Program – Doctor Stream Encourages medical practitioners to work in rural and remote areas of Australia. View all services Help subjects Aged care reforms The reforms create a better aged care system to give older people more choice and control and easier access to a range of aged care services. Education services for health professionals Education resources to help you understand our health programs and do business with us. Getting started with digital health Electronic management of health and health related information. It’s a safer, better quality, more equitable and sustainable health system for all Australians. Health professionals starting with Medicare What you need to do to get set up with Medicare and more. Indigenous health education for health professionals Learn about our health program payments and services to help improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ health outcomes. Overview of the PBS The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) subsidises prescription medicines listed under the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits. View all help subjects News Medicare online accounts will look different this year We’ve improved Medicare online accounts for your patients. We are now Services Australia On 1 February 2020 we became Services Australia. We’re upgrading our digital health and aged care channels Health and aged care professionals will need to use web services compatible software to access our digital channels. We’re adding active catch up schedules to immunisation history statements From 18 January 2020, catch up schedules will appear on immunisation history statements. Indigenous Access Program for health professionals Health measures tailored to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Indigenous health education for health professionals Helping improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. View all practitioners in Indigenous health news Was this page useful? Yes No Why? The content makes sense It was well written It was helpful to me The layout or style made it easy to read Something else Why not? I got a technical error The content is confusing It was not helpful to me It was poorly written The layout or style made it difficult to read Something else Thank you for your feedback. Leave this field blank
