Tony Webber is a former Director of the Professional Services Review. He’s also a clueless bureaucrat. At least, I thought that a few years ago while he was flailing around to avoid defining long consultations under Medicare.
I wrote at the time that, regardless of the PSR’s views, I would keep billing a long consult item for any professional attendance that hurt my brain and lasted more that 20 minutes. This included consults using phone interpreters for Kirundi-speaking refugees who turned out to have simple viral URTIs.
My opinion of the man has changed. AMA hacks are whining that Dr Webber is a doctor-basher but I liked his article ‘What is wrong with Medicare?' in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.
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