Choose Rosedale Medical Practice as Your MyMedicare Home
Better Care. Deeper Connection. Greater Peace of Mind.
When you choose Rosedale Medical Practice as your MyMedicare registered practice, you’re doing more than filling out a form — you’re unlocking a new level of care.
What is MyMedicare?
By joining MyMedicare, you tell the health system that you trust us to look after you. This means we can get more information about your health from other places, such as hospitals or specialists. This way, we can plan and coordinate your care better with you and other health professionals.
Why is MyMedicare important?
Research shows that having a regular general practice and GP improves health outcomes, reduces health care costs and improves the experience of people receiving and providing care (you and your health care team). Finding a GP and practice that you trust, and formalising that relationship, is an important first step in providing continuity of care. By promoting regular interactions with your general practices, the Commonwealth Government also hopes to reduce visits to hospital and emergency departments, as well as readmissions to hospital. Registering for MyMedicare has various benefits for you as well as for our practice. These are outlined below.
Benefits for our patients
Better Access
- Access to rebates for longer phone consultations
- Access to urgent triage and appointments
- Access to repeat prescriptions and referrals via HotDoc
- Confidence that we are your trusted GP and team
Better Value
- Increased incentives to patients over time, to promote and encourage continuity of care
- Incentives to help Rosedale Medical Practice provide better and more services to you
Better Continuity
- Our name will be visible on your My Health Record so that we can be updated about your health
- We update your MyHealthRecord to help your health care team outside of the practice to better understand your health needs
Better Planning
- Enrolment in our active care monitoring list so that you will be reminded of upcoming healthcare needs
- Access to targeted health promotion activities
Benefits for our practice
As your registered practice and nominated GP, our name will be visible on your My Health Record. Most people have a My Health Record but don’t use it very much. Over time, all pathology and test results done elsewhere will have to be uploaded to your My Health Record and be visible to you on your My Health Record App. This will help us collate and be informed about all your care so that we can coordinate care in a comprehensive fashion.
In the future, the Commonwealth Government will use registration with MyMedicare to provide incentives to us that will enable us to provide better and more services to you. This will include chronic disease management items linked into a patient’s registration to support continuity of care with chronic and complex conditions.
How Do I Join?
There are three ways to register with us:
- Apply online via the Medicare app or website
- Apply via a manual paper form at our practice
- Respond to an online invitation we will send you
Registration is completely voluntary.
You can withdraw your registration at any time. Also, even if you are registered, you can still attend any other practice at any time, especially if we are closed. You can see any of GPs or nurses at any time, not just your nominated GP.
You can only choose one practice to register with.
Even if you registered with us, you can still attend any practice at any time.
Registration is free.
Registration is completely free and the Commonwealth government is not paying Rosedale Medical Practice for the registration.
Registration is optional and you can change registration at any time.
You can also change your mind and leave the program at any time. It does not affect your Medicare rights or benefits.
Am I Eligible?
To be eligible for registration, you must have had 2 in-person visits at our practice sometime in the last 2 years.
If someone in your family is registered, you can register without meeting that requirement.
More information on eligibility will be available after 1 October 2023.
Register Now
1. Use your Medicare App
2. Fill out our Online Form via HotDoc (click Register Now or Scan the QR Code below)
3. Fill out a paper form at the practice.
Is my information secure and private?
MyMedicare simply links you to our practice in the Medicare system, so that this link is visible to you and your other health care providers.
How Do I Find Out More?
You can also join this upcoming webinar: “Introducing MyMedicare: A Webinar for Consumers” presented by Consumers Health Forum CEO Elizabeth Deveny and a senior Department of Health and Aged Care representative
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