The new Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Indigenous Health Incentive will commence in May 2010. To join this new incentive, practices need to be participating in the PIP and meet specific sign-on requirements.
Medicare Australia will write to PIP practices in early 2010, inviting them to apply for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive and provide the necessary documentation.
There will be three types of payments available through the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive:
Go to http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/provider/incentives/pip/files/pip-indigenous-health-incentive-questions-answered.pdf for more information, including payment descriptions.
The PEN Clinical Audit Tool (CAT) has the capability of being able to identify from your Clinical Software who your ATSI patients are by filtering for ATSI. Go to http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/provider/incentives/pip/ for more information on the Practice Incentive Program.
