MyMedicare is a new voluntary scheme to create a stronger relationship between patients and their primary care teams.
It will provide new blended funding to support practices, GPs, and other primary care professionals to deliver person-centred care. Patients can enrol with a general practice registered with MyMedicare to get better continuity of care and easier access to telehealth consultations. MyMedicare will provide practices with more comprehensive information about their regular patients, while giving patients and their care team access to additional funding packages, tailored to their health needs.
Registration in MyMedicare is voluntary for patients, practices, and providers. All providers who wish to participate in MyMedicare must be linked to the practice in the Organisation Register.
- Eligible providers: Provider must be a GP or nurse practitioners. Eligible GPs include vocationally registered GP, non-vocationally registered GP, or a GP registrar.
- All eligible participating providers should be linked in the Organisation Register.
- From 1 November 2023, practices and patients who are not connected in MyMedicare will not be eligible to access the new long telehealth rebates.
- The new General Practice in Aged Care Incentive and Frequent Hospital Users Incentive will commence in financial year 2024-25.
- The General Practice in Aged Care Incentive aims to support every aged care resident to receive continuous, quality primary care services from their regular GP and practice.
- The Frequent Hospital Users Incentive will support patients with chronic conditions to connect to a general practice to receive comprehensive, multidisciplinary care in the community and reduce their visits to hospital.
Registration steps
The practice may have previously linked HPOS for other programs or services such as the AIR, but the Organisation in PRODA needs to be linked again for the Organisation Register using the ABN as the linking identifier.
The Organisation Register is a new capability which allows health organisations and organisation sites (the locations at which each organisation operates) to register and participate in multiple government programmes.
If your practice is already registered and all participating providers are linked in the Organisation Register, you do not need to complete another registration process.
Once the following steps are complete, you do not need to do anything else until patient registration becomes available in October 2023.
Additional MyMedicare information
Please contact your Primary Care Engagement Team or email digitalhealth@nqphn.com.au for further information or support.
