Home doctors bracing for Medicare cuts in budget

By Mark Kenny, National Affairs Editor
Updated March 21 2017 - 4:28pm, first published 4:24pm

Home doctors fear the axe is about to fall on Medicare-funded, after-hours visits to millions of Australian households each year, resulting in after-hours patients being pushed towards already stretched hospital emergency departments.

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