{"id":655,"date":"2010-11-25T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-11-25T18:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T17:15:49","slug":"paradox-in-australia-crediting-the-sport-and-exercise-medicine-but-forcing-patients-to-pay-more-to-see-the-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/25\/paradox-in-australia-crediting-the-sport-and-exercise-medicine-but-forcing-patients-to-pay-more-to-see-the-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox in Australia &#8211; &#8216;crediting&#8217; the sport and exercise medicine specialty but forcing patients to pay more to see the docs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent specialist status has led Australian sports and exercise physicians receiving more referrals from GPs; MRI referral is also in the specialist&#8217;s scope of practice. However, at the same time as these physicians were recognized for having special expertise in exercise prescription &#8212; addressing the <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/43\/1\/1.full\" target=\"_self\">worlds biggest public health problem<\/a> &#8212;\u00a0 physical inactivity, patient rebates for the service was cut!<\/p>\n<p>An umbrella body for Australian sport has expressed its concern over this paradox; local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/business\/medicare-rebate-cut-adds-insult-to-injury-20101116-17vw0.html\" target=\"_self\">media <\/a>have followed the story but the Minister for Health has not commented when this blog was posted.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent specialist status has led Australian sports and exercise physicians receiving more referrals from GPs; MRI referral is also in the specialist&#8217;s scope of practice. However, at the same time as these physicians were recognized for having special expertise in exercise prescription &#8212; addressing the worlds biggest public health problem &#8212;\u00a0 physical inactivity, patient rebates [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/25\/paradox-in-australia-crediting-the-sport-and-exercise-medicine-but-forcing-patients-to-pay-more-to-see-the-docs\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1370,1,1827,1865],"tags":[1522,1866,1867,1868],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-prescription","category-uncategorized","category-obesity-related","category-sport-and-exercise-medicine-discipline","tag-australasian-college-of-sports-physicians","tag-health-service-delivery","tag-minister-roxon","tag-sports-medicine-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}