Practice Fees Information

We bulk-bill most types of appointments.

• Standard appointments with your GP for all Medicare or DVA card holders
• All immunisation appointments
• Regular scheduled appointments to look after your ongoing conditions (GP Chronic Condition Management Plans, also known as “Care Plans” or “GP Care Plans”)
• Health Assessment appointments, including annual health assessments for patients over 75 years, Menopause Health Assessments, and Heart Health Checks
• All mental health appointments including GP Mental Health Care Plans

A small number of appointments types will sometimes attract a private fee.

These include: –

•  ECGs
• Spirometry
• Skin biopsies
• Excision of skin lesions
• The cost of purchasing a vaccine
• Consultations that don’t attract a Medicare rebate, such as Commercial Driver’s Licence Medical Examinations

Medicare rebates for telephone consults are only available for brief or standard consultations. My Medicare registered patients can access bulk-billed long telephone appointments.

Procedures attract a $57.05 gap fee for all patients. This includes all biopsies and skin lesion excisions.

For many excisions, we won’t know the exact fee until after the specimen has been examined by the pathologist. We will ask you to pay these fees when you come for removal of sutures.

Other procedures fees

Other procedures can attract a total fee of between $75.40 and $323.65 each, with a maximum gap of $57.05 per procedure. This includes but is not limited to venesection, wound repair with stitches or glue, removal of foreign bodies, drainage of haematomas or abscesses, and treatment of ingrown nails.

All immunisations appointments at Westside Medical Centre will be bulk-billed for Medicare or DVA card holders. 

For immunisations that aren’t covered on the Australian Immunisation Schedule, Westside Medical Centre can provide the vaccine at a private cost. This includes: –

• Hepatitis A vaccine
• Hepatitis B vaccine (unless given as a routine childhood immunisation)
• Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine
• Q Fever skin test or vaccine
• Typhoid vaccine
• Yellow fever vaccine

Westside Medical Centre provides after hours care for our patients at times when the surgery isn’t open. This service is operated by a variety of the doctors who normally practice at Westside. The on-call doctor will be able to access the medical records that your usual GP keeps.

After-hours telephone consultations will be bulk-billed for regular patients of the practice. Face-to-face visits will attract a non-Medicare rebateable fee, starting at $275.