PIP Indigenous Health Incentive: Practice requirements. 

• Agree to seek consent to register their Aboringinal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients who have, or are at risk of, chronic disease with Medicare Australia in order to access support through the Indigenous Helath Incentive and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Co-payment Measures.

• Establish and use a mechanism to ensure their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients, ages 15 years and over, with chronic disease are followed up (e.g. through the use of a recall and reminder system, or staff actively seeking out their patients) to ensure they return for ongoing care.

• Agree that at least two staff members (one of whom must be a general practitioner) will undertake appropriate cultural awareness training within 12 months of joining the incentive, and,

• From 1 July 2010, agree to annotate PBS prescriptions for eligible Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients for the purpose of the PBS Co-payment Measure. The PBS Co-payment Measure promotes greater access to PBS medicines by reducing or waving the co-payments for medicines for eligible Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients   

PIP Indigenous Helath Incentive: Payment Information

• Sign-on Payment - Practices will recieve a one off payment of $1000 for signing on to the Indigenous Health Incentive.

• Registration Payment - Practices will recieve a $250 registration payment for each Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient, aged 15 years and over, registered for chronic disease management.
  
  Please Note/ Patients must be re-registered every year starting from November 1, Re-registering a patient entitles that practice to an additional $250 registration payment.

• Outcomes Payments
  
  Tier 1: Target level of care: $100 per calendar year.
             - Prepare GPMP or TCA, undertake at least one review of the GPMP or TCA.
             - Undertake two reviews of a TCA or a GPMP.
             - Contribute on two occasions to a 731 (multidiciplinary care plan for person in aged
               care).
  
  Tier 2: Majority of care: $150 per calendar year.
             - Providing the majority of eligible MBS services, with a minimum of 5.
             - Include but are not limited to attendances by GPs (1-55, 193, 195, 197, 199, 601-
               603, 2501-2559, 5000-5067) and Chronic Disease Management Items.