*Aged Pension or Disability Support Pension
Payment for your consultation is expected on the day of service. A debt recovery fee of 20% + GST will apply for outstanding accounts.
A current referral is required for you to claim Medicare rebates. Please note that a referral from a General Practitioner is generally valid for 12 months but may be deemed ongoing if specified by your GP. A referral from a specialist is valid for only 3 months.
DVA Gold Card holders will be billed directly through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
If nursing services are required (in the rooms), a non-rebatable fee may apply.
A $20 non-rebatable fee will apply for prescriptions requested outside of appointment time.
To avoid any unnecessary or duplicate testing, kindly forward any relevant pathology and radiology to our rooms prior to your appointment. Please be aware that there are new Medicare restrictions for PSA testing, hence out of pocket pathology fees may apply. PSA testing is an integral part of monitoring prostate disease, and your Urologist will request PSA testing as clinically required.
It is an increasingly important part of a surgical practice to perform quality assurance projects and these include clinical audits. This means critically looking at procedures that are performed and discussing any issues that may have arisen so that these could be prevented in the future. These audits must be peer reviewed in order for them to be deemed suitable by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. As such, some of this information is presented in front of other colleagues and urologists. At no time are patients’ identities mentioned during these discussions but simply a general discussion regarding the type of cases that have been performed and problems that may have arisen. With the current privacy legislation it is imperative that we have your informed consent to perform these audits and that you agree that information that may be obtained from these audits is allowed to be presented in front of third parties such as other urologists.
Our Privacy Policy is available on request.
I agree to the collection, use and disclosure of medical information collected about me by Australian Urology Associates so they may properly assess, diagnose and treat, and be proactive in my health care needs.
