Have you been left out of pocket by soaring charges from your specialist? Share your experience with us If you’ve visited a specialist recently, you may have felt the hit to your hip pocket. Patients are paying hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars out of pocket for healthcare as some doctors charge not just double, but triple, the Medicare rebate. While GPs face pressure to bulk bill, there is no similar conversation about non-GP specialists, despite the fact they are also trained in the public system and remunerated through Medicare, experts told Guardian Australia when we recently wrote about this issue . Continue reading...