Kelvale Fees
Our Fees:
At Kelvale our philosophy is centred on ensuring that we always deliver the highest quality of care to patients.
We do not follow the current trend of sacrificing quality care to cut costs. We are therefore obliged to charge a small fee in excess of medicare rebates in order to bring to our patients the best quality of medical services, technologies and facilities.
All charges not covered by a medicare rebate are agreed between the patient and their doctor at the time of consultation.
We support the objectives of Australia’s Medicare system and its intention to provide a universal health insurance scheme with the following objectives:
- To make health care affordable for all Australians
- To give all Australians access to health care services with priority according to clinical need
- To provide a high quality of care
We have adopted the following practices when pricing our services to maintain our quality standards but also make access to healthcare as affordable as possible:
For routine consultations we bulk bill Aged Pension Card and DVA Card Holders
Child Immunisations are also bulk billed
For all other patients there may be a small charge in excess of the Medicare rebate.
With Medicare EasyClaim the rebate is paid back into your account within minutes. Payment can be made easily with Cash, ETPOS or Credit Card.
Note: Initial consults will incur the private fee.
Note: After hours visits are privately billed.
If you are unable to attend an appointment please let reception know so that the appointment may be offered to another patient. Failing to attend an appointment may incur a fee.
For your safety and to enable access to the wide range of services we are required to adhere to our significant quality standards and facilities.
We also need to ensure that we are sufficiently staffed with suitably skilled nurses and other professionals.
These costs are significant and not completely provided for within the level of rebate offered by Medicare. This results in our having to charge above the medicare fee to cover these costs.
As a practice we are committed to keeping the gap between Medicare rebates and our fee as low as possible through increasing our efficiency and closely controlling our costs.
This small additional gap fee enables our patients to access high quality comprehensive medical services for a modest contribution.
Should you require any further information please contact our staff for details of all fees and charges relevant to your visit.