关于the AMA
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is the peak professional body for doctors in Australia.
AMA促进和保护医生的专业利益和患者和社区的医疗需求。
知情财务同意
2019年7月23日
知情财务同意- 医生和患者之间的合作。
协助患者了解他们的医疗保健and its costs.
知情金融同意（IFC）在医生，医院和卫生保险公司共同努力，为患者提供有关治疗的成本的信息，以及在入院前应付的私人健康保险福利的信息。
AMA鼓励良好的IFC实践和提供有关医疗费用的信息。患者应始终向他们的医生询问他们的费用，以及在前往医院作为私人患者之前参与其护理的其他医生的费用。
AMA致力于一系列关键医疗组织，以创建一个全面的资源文件，支持医生和患者之间的合作。
This document支持患者将患者更加与他们的医生，他们的健康基金和他们选择的医院进行对话。它有助于创建一个对话，这些对话将提高关于治疗方案，收费和预期购房性的透明度。
您可以找到由AMA产生的一系列有用的IFC信息medical gapsandquestions to ask your doctor下面。
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ama.知情财务同意Form Template
下面是一个模板医生can use to provide written IFC to patients. Doctors can download this form and make any changes necessary to provide information about their fees to patients.
Click Here to Download the pro-forma "estimate of fees" Word Template
“让我们谈谈费用......”小册子，垫和海报
The AMA IFC brochure, flyer and poster are available to download free of charge to medical practices to distribute to patients. They outline questions patients should ask their doctor and private health insurer about the cost of their treatment and any out of pockets costs they might incur before going to hospital as a private patient. (Please note we no longer have printed copies of these brochures, pads or posters available).
Click Here to Download the PDF Flyer
Click Here to Download the PDF Poster
什么是医疗差距？
A medical gap (or out-of-pocket cost) is the difference between your doctor's fee and the combined amount of the Medicare rebate and the benefit your private health insurer will pay for a medical service. Government Medicare rebates have not kept pace with the increasing costs of delivering treatment.
The AMA has long campaigned for better indexation of Medicare schedule fees. Since 1999, we have included a fee gaps chart in the AMA Fees List to show the ever-widening gap between the indexation of Medicare schedule fees and the indices for CPI, average weekly earnings and AMA fees.
The AMA Gaps poster illustrates how successive Governments have failed to index the Medicare schedule fees in line with the CPI and average weekly earnings.
随着低于PAR的指数年份的同期，今天在Medicare日程费用与提供服务的现实成本之间存在相当的断开。
AMA鼓励成员向患者解释这一点。海报是一种简单的方法，展示为什么他们可能需要支付差距。
医生费
The fees doctors charge patients for their professional medical services must cover their practice costs. Every private practising medical practitioner incurs a wide range of practice costs in order to provide a high quality services to patients.
运行医疗实践的成本因全国各地而且跨专业团体而变化。但是，每一项医疗实践，都是唯一的从业者或大型企业实践，就雇用行政和临床实践人员的成本，电脑，租金，电，专业赔偿保险等一般运行费用，以及大多数情况下的医疗设备的费用和用品。
The practice costs must all be met entirely from the fee charged by the doctor for the medical services he/she provides to patients.
在去医院之前向医生询问你的医生的问题
- 你的费用是多少？
- 其他医生有任何费用吗？
- Will I have any out-of-pocket costs?
- 你的费用只为估计吗？
- 我可以在写作中估计您的费用吗？
- 如果成本变化，你什么时候会告诉我？
- 如果我需要假体/植入物怎么办？
- 我应该联系我的健康基金吗？
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记住：如果您尚不清楚您的治疗总成本...请您的医生和您的健康基金。