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PHN Cooperative (2024): Submission to Working Better for Medicare Review

This paper provided context and information to the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing's Working Better for Medicare – Distribution Levers review.

At a high level, the PHN Cooperative recommended that:

  • The Department conduct a comprehensive review and overhaul of the application and integration of levers, which considers the changing nature of community need and primary healthcare;
  • Establish mechanisms the drive place-based modelling to meet targeted need; and
  • Improve granularity of data to better target distribution mechanisms and incentives.

Alongside further detail on these, the PHN Cooperative suggested recommendations for the individual levers.

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