Our Fees
Learn how you can get GP care at home for less than $30 a home visit
Affordable Home GP Care
The Medicare Safety Net makes Home GP Care affordable for even more patients.
When you spend over a certain amount in out-of-hospital fees, Medicare provides higher rebates to cover 80% of your out-of-pocket fees.
Once you reach your Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) threshold, you are out-of-pocket less than $30 for a home visit.
The Safety Net Thresholds
The amount you must spend in out-of-hospital costs before you reach your Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) threshold are:
- $811.80 – Concession cardholders and families eligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A
- $2544.30 – Everyone else
Safety Net Examples
Read the following examples to see how the Medicare Safety Net can benefit you.
Brenda is home-bound and receives regular ongoing care from our GP Dr Mike Patton. Brenda is a concession card holder with a Medicare Safety Net of $811.80.
She requires a GP home visit and follow-up telehealth consultation every month on average.
Her telehealth consultations are bulk billed. For each of her first 6 home visits in the calendar year, she pays a $139 gap after which she reaches her threshold.
Because Medicare pays 80% of the gap fee after the threshold is reached, Brenda is only out-of-pocket $27.80 for each home visit for rest of the Calendar year.
This means, over the course of the year, Brenda is out-of-pocket less than $20 a week for 12 home visits and 12 telehealth consultations.
Ahmed and his wife Layla are both concession card holders and are registered as a Concessional Safety Net family with a combined threshold of $811.80.
Both are home-bound and register to receive regular ongoing care from our GP Dr Mike Patton.
Prior to registering, between them, they have spent $600 in out-of-hospital fees.
Their telehealth consultations are bulk billed. For their first home visit they must each pay a $139 gap after which they reach their combined threshold of $811.80.
Because Medicare pays 80% of the gap fee after the threshold is reached, Ahmed and Layla are only out-of-pocket $27.80 for each home visit for rest of the Calendar year.
Li Wei and his wife Chen Xi are registered as a Safety Net Family with a combined threshold of $2544.30.
Li Wei pays a gap to see his psychiatrist and Chen Xi has recently paid gaps for out-of-hospital Obstetric clinic appointments. Since 1st January, together they have spent a total of $2750 in fees.
Li Wei requests an urgent daytime home GP to review Chen Xi who has developed a vomiting illness.
Because they have already spent more than their combined threshold of $2544.30, Chen Xi is only out-of-pocket $29.80 for her home visit.
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Billing FAQs
We take the full up front payment at the time of the consultation and then submit Medicare claims on the patient’s behalf, which are typically paid within 24 hours.
We accept Credit and Debit cards. We do not accept cash. Payment must be made during your home visit.
The Pay Doctor via Claimant (PDVC) scheme allows Medicare rebates to be paid directly to your doctor via a cheque issued by Medicare.
During your home visit, your doctor will ask you to sign an authority form to request your Medicare rebate(s). You will be issued a cheque by Medicare which you must then forward to Perth Home GP so your doctor can be paid.
We are not able to receive funds from Medicare by electronic transfer, as regulations prevent us from doing so as we are not bulk billing for our home visit services.
Please forward the cheque to:
Perth Home GP
PO BOX 420
Cottesloe
WA 6011
We require 12 hours notice for cancellation of a home visit or telehealth appointment or a missed consultation fee of $50 is payable.
You will not be able to book with our service in the future until the payment is made.
The reasons why in-hours visit fees are higher is because:
- We only charge you a callout fee and fund the rest of the visit from Medicare
- Medicare rebates available to patients for after hours consults are significantly higher than for in-hours consults.
- Given doctors receive less remuneration from rebates for daytime visits we must charge a higher callout fee to cover costs.
Higher Medicare rebates are available in the after hours period for patients with unexpected illnesses (that cannot wait to be reviewed until the next in-hours period). It is for this reason that we are able to offer reduced callout fees after hours.
Medicare regulations prevent us from billing urgent items if patients are booked prior to the onset of the current after hours period. This is why we must wait until the after hours period before accepting bookings.
See our After Hours GP Home Visit page to learn more about the service and when we operate.
Some patients will be eligible to claim medicare rebates for Telehealth.
In order to claim a Medicare rebate for Telehealth you will need to meet one of the following criteria:
- Have had a face to face consultation with Perth Home GP in the previous 12 months.
- Children under the age of 12 months
- People who are homeless
- Patients receiving an urgent after-hours (unsociable hours) service (e.g the consultation occurs between 11pm and 7am and is deemed urgent by the consulting doctor).
- Patients of medical practitioners at an Aboriginal Medical Service or an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service
- People isolating because of a COVID-related State or Territory public health order, or in COVID-19 quarantine because of a State or Territory public health order.
If you do not meet the above criteria at the time of the consultation you are not allowed to claim a Medicare rebate.