Medicare support: Up to 10 bulk-billed sessions per client Weekly or fortnightly appointments No out-of-pocket costs for eligible clients We partner with retirement and aged care facilities to provide regular on-site visits, ensuring easy access to top-quality mental health care and reducing barrie...
* 1 School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia; E-Mail: theane.theophilos@scu.edu.au 2 College of Health, Human Services, and Nursing, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 East Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747, ...
Many primary-care providers do not take Medicare, Medicaid or other public insurance patients, do not accept patients who are uninsured, or have a patient population that consists of the maximum number of these patients that they can manage [3,19–22]. Characteristics such as age, race and ...
But even if prisons were to overcome all cultural barriers to mental health assessment, the meager resources devoted to mental health care for Australia’s prisoners are chronically overburdened. Prisoners are not serviced under Medicare (Australia’s system of universal healthcare) but rather ...
Culturally safe screening practices also require a commitment by health services, Australian medical policy, and the associated Medicare Benefits Scheme to enable longer appointment times to ensure that a meaningful clinical investment can be made in Aboriginal women’s perinatal mental health. As noted...