‘Unethical’ for GPs to charge to prescribe Covid antivirals, Australian charity says

Council on the Ageing says doctors who charge consultation fee for prescription for older people should be called out

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Failing to bulk bill pensioners who require life-saving Covid-19 antivirals is morally bankrupt" and unethical", the head of the national peak body for older Australians has said.

The Council on the Ageing chief executive, Ian Yates, said as growing numbers of general practitioners stop bulk billing, citing rising costs and low Medicare rebates, he is hearing more and more examples of pensioners not being bulk-billed, especially people with the seniors healthcare card."