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Patients charged expensive out-of-pocket fees as doctors stop bulk billing

Perth mother Jayme Lees has been bulk billed by her GP for the past six years, but when she took her newborn son for a check-up in June she was hit with a hefty, unexpected fee. 

"I went to leave when they told me there was a cost … I was quite shocked," she said.

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