Essendon Fields Medical Centre - Good Health, Great Care

During COVID-19 - Phone Consults

During this difficult period, we've decided to BULK BILL all GP phone consults for our patients who hold a valid Medicare card.

Face-to-Face Consults

Should you have a face-to-face consult, the usual below fees apply until the end of April 2021. Please see new billing charges for May 2021 onwards.

 

Fees

We are a Mixed Billing Practice.  As such, fees are payable for the practitioners you see.

For the purposes of our fees, we have a concessional rate, and a full rate.

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Doctors

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Our GPs charge a gap fee of $22 for consultations Monday to Friday (from the 3rd May, this will change. Please see changes below).

 

For concessional rate, consultations Monday to Friday are bulk billed.

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On the weekend, consultations attract a gap fee of $27.  The concessional rate on the weekend is $15.

 

Please note, when you pay just the gap fee, Medicare will pay the doctor the rest of the consult in the form of a cheque. Unfortunately, they post this cheque to our patients to bring back to us.  It is for the doctor, so please bring it back whenever you're in the neighbourhood.

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Non Attendance Fee

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As we're an appointment based clinic, please be mindful of other patients wanting to book in. 

If you cannot attend an appointment, please ring our reception to cancel and avoid a non attendance fee. 

Repeat non attendance (3 or more) without notice, will incur a non attendance fee of $50+GST. 

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Billing Update (from 3rd May 2021)

Since we opened our doors 6 years ago, we've kept our gap fee as low as possible ($22 weekdays for those who don't meet the bulking billing criteria).  Due to the continued increase in running costs and continued hike in medical consumables prices, we've made the hard decision to increase our gap fee to account for this and allow us to continue providing the same quality of care. 

Weekdays  

$25 (if you don't meet the Bulk Billing criteria above - please refer to concessional rate) 

Weekends

$20 (if you're normally bulk billed by us)

$35 gap otherwise  

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Patients without a Medicare Card will need to pay in full

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