GPs warn not all practices will take up Labor’s promised Medicare bulk-billing changes if rebates still too low

Labor will expand bulk-billing to all Medicare cardholders and give clinics who bulk-bill every patient an additional loading payment of 12.5% on their rebates, if elected. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

The government has vowed that nine out of ten GP visits will be bulk-billed by 2030, but GPs are warning not all practices will take up the offer as longer consults would not see the same level of benefit as shorter ones.

On Sunday Labor launched a major election policy incentivising GP clinics to bulk bill every patient.