Chronic Disease Management Changes for GPs – What You Need to Know

From 1 July 2025, changes will be made to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items as they relate to the current Chronic Condition Management structure. These new initiatives seek to improve patient care by supporting those patients who will benefit from a more structured framework, providing additional access to allied health and other services where a more multidisciplinary approach would be beneficial, and encouraging the regular review chronic condition management plans.

The GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangements with be replaced by a single GP Chronic Condition Management Plan. This change promotes continuity of care by requiring patients to register with their regular practice via MyMedicare to access management plans. Patients who haven’t registered with MyMedicare can access management plans through their usual general practitioners.

This change will ensure management plans are reviewed regularly, by both changing the pay disparity between developing and reviewing plans, and requiring patients to establish and review their plans within the past 18 months to retain access to allied Health and additional services. In addition, the referral process for allied health services will be simplified.

What is Best Practice doing to help facilitate this change?

Firstly, be prepared…

The change is coming on 1 July, so it’s time to start preparing. Join Best Practice and Cubiko for a webinar on preparing your Practice for the upcoming Chronic Disease Management changes as we cover off your preparation steps, like how to help patients enrol in MyMedicare. We’ll take an in depth look at how you can identify MyMedicare eligible patients, how to send out MyMedicare awareness notifications, and how to indicate MyMedicare registration in Bp Premier.

Secondly, know the changes and how they will impact your practice and patients…

In this webinar, we will cover off all the key changes, including;

• You will no longer need to coordinate with two additional providers as part of a TCA.
• Referrals to allied health providers will be made via a referral letter, rather than a structured form.
• New MBS item numbers will apply for plan preparation and review (face-to-face and video). All existing GPMP and TCA items will be retired.
• Patients must have a plan prepared or reviewed within the previous 18 months to maintain access to subsidised allied health services.
• Patients registered with MyMedicare will be required to access chronic condition management plans and reviews through their registered practice. Patients not registered with MyMedicare can continue to access these services through their usual GP.

For those patients with current GP Management Plans and Team Care arrangements, transition arrangements will be put in place to ensure continuity of service. Join Team Bp and Cubiko for a free webinar, either Tuesday the 10^th of June, or Thursday the 12^th of June  to learn more.