Push for greater transparency for doctors' fees

Greens backbencher Johnathan Davis has urged the government to do more to promote services which show general practitioner rates. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

The ACT government will promote the use of services which highlight doctors who bulk bill, as part of a push for greater transparency for health consumers.

Bulk billing rates in the territory are among the lowest in the nation and only about five per cent of general practitioners bulk bill all patients, an online directory, Cleanbill, has found.