The General Practice in Aged Care Incentive (GPACI) aims to improve access to quality, proactive general practice care for older people who live in aged care homes by incentivising proactive visits, regular, planned reviews, and coordinated care planning.
Primary care providers and practices registered in MyMedicare will receive incentive payments for providing their MyMedicare registered patients who live in aged care homes with care planning services and regular visits.
Benefits to practices and providers include
- payments for visiting their patients in an aged care home, rather than at their practice.
- funding to manage the care for registered patients living in an aged care home.
- strengthening and formalising relationships between patient, GP, practice, and other
members of a patient’s care team
New General Practice in Aged Care Incentive Guidelines (the guidelines) provide clear guidance to general practices and primary care providers that voluntarily register in MyMedicare to access the General Practice in Aged Care Incentive. The guidelines also provide advice on the service requirements, payments and assessments, and appeals process.
There are some steps you need to take to prepare for GPACI:
Register for GPACI
Prepare your practice and team
Other helpful information:
• Checklist and steps to register for MyMedicare on the Organisation Register
• Steps required to add the MyMedicare General Practice in Aged Care Incentive
• Adding the MyMedicare General Practice in Aged Care Incentive Indicator
• Patient, provider and translated resources
For support, connect with your practice support contact or email Gippsland PHN Primary Health primaryhealth@gphn.org.au
