The Interchange Health Cooperative practice in South.Point, Tuggeranong closed on Monday. Photo: Facebook.
Canberra’s bulk-billing crisis has worsened with the closure of the Interchange Health Cooperative (IHCO) practice in Tuggeranong, which had almost 5000 patients on its books.
The six-year-old 100 per cent bulk-billed general practice and allied health service at South.Point called in administrators from RSM Australia on Monday (7 April).
The move comes after the Albanese Government promised in February to spend $8.5 billion over four years to triple the incentive for GPs to provide almost universal bulk-billing services, although doubts remain that the goal of nine in 10 visits be free of out of pocket expenses can be achieved…
