The NT, with the highest proportion of people who received all bulk-billed GP services in the country, saw a substantial decline.
The NT, with the highest proportion of people who received all bulk-billed GP services in the country, saw a substantial decline. 2. … But socioeconomic status doesn’t appear to It is often suggested that many GPs have a practice of bulk-billing pensioners, other social security recipients and patients they consider in need while billing other patients directly. On this basis there should be some relationship between socioeconomic status and the proportion of people who received all bulk-billed services. There are 22 electorates in which more than 50% of the population are in the bottom 30% of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD). For these electorates , on average 68% of people received all bulk-billed GP services in 2021-22, a decline of 0.8 percentage points over 2019-20. However, there is considerable variation within this group: Fowler (outer metropolitan Sydney) had a rate of 96%, while Lyons (rural Tasmania) h