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Dentists in Australia are looking for Medicare debts to be written off. Nearly 50 dentists, however, have been ordered to pay money back because they didn’t fill out the proper paperwork necessary for Medicare patients.
The total amount dentists have been forced to pay back is now more than $21 million. Roughly $250,000 of that money has been recouped as of now.
An audit uncovered the fact that these dentists neglected to fill out the paperwork properly.
There may soon be legislation involving a private members bill, which would effectively wipe the slate clean. There’s also the idea that the dentists didn’t know about the fact that they had to give patients, and the general practitioners who referred the patients, a treatment plan.
There’s also the opinion that the audit of many of the dentists was done in an unfair fashion.
Many dentists claim that they did not know about these procedures and the possible consequences for not complying. A large amount of these dentists could be losing faith in the way government handles aspects of dentistry based on this situation.
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