AHHA Submission in response to the Medicare Benefit Schedule Review Taskforce’s phase 2 report from the General Practice and Primary Care Clinical Committee

AHHA is Australia’s national peak body for public hospitals and healthcare providers. Our membership includes state health departments, Local Hospital Networks (LHNs) and public hospitals, community health services, Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and primary healthcare providers, aged care providers, universities, individual health professionals and academics. As such, we are uniquely placed to be an independent, national voice for universal high-quality healthcare to benefit the whole community.

AHHA supports the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce’s commitment to providing recommendations to the Minister for Health that will see the MBS deliver:

1. Affordable and universal access
2. Best practice health services
3. Value for the individual patient
4. Value for the health system