1 - Medicubes launch 🚀

Medicubes is a monthly podcast presented by:

• Chris Smeed
• Riwka Hagen
• Kim Poyner

With their combined extensive experience in primary care, the team behind Medicubes aim to bring detailed content to the community.   In today’s episode, we will connect you into our origin story. How we met, passions, debrief ad connections. What cultivated these host relationships with each other. We will also respond to two listener questions that they are grappling with at the moment.   Mary from Sydney - What does MBS indexation mean to me and what do I need to do?

• Recap of essentially no indexation. Ie - fees are not keeping up with CPI increases 20 year history, reducing practice viability etc.
• Many practices - private billing
• Start with your practice’s intention - how are you tracking
• Software updates
• Understand what this means for YOUR practice & plan accordingly

John from Perth - Why are practices moving to private/mixed billing? Any tips on how to manage this transition.

• How will you manage still low Medicare rebates if not moving to private billing
• Benchmarks
• Reality pill of a business
• Marketing to your clients - managing the transition

Key takeaways: With their combined extensive experience in primary care, the team behind Medicubes aim to bring detailed content to the community.The aim of the podcast is to provide robust panel discussion with industry experts. Engaging and empowering the audience to bring about paradigm change in the Australian healthcare landscape.The reach of the podcast will be amplified via the hosts of Medicubes. Through Cubiko’s diverse customer base, through the Facebook ‘Practice Managers Network’ and connections with PHNs across Australia. Listen to other episodes of Medicubes on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/medicubes/id1635000183 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6H6hJ1lMo8Wt5OK2rzLFkZ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/medicubespodcasts   This show is produced in collaboration with Talking HealthTech. Visit https://www.talkinghealthtech.com for more information.