A small amount of research would have answered the question, but it seems to be beyond Jan.
“JOURNALIST: Fewer than one in four GP clinics nationwide bulk bill all their patients. Backbenchers are saying publicly that medical bills are one of the key concerns for their constituents. Will you have to do something more in this area, ahead of the Budget?
BUTLER: We’re getting about the job of implementing the Budget measures right now. And these are very significant investments. It’s important to be clear how you are measuring bulk billing. The data you’re referring to measures how many general practices bulk bill every patient, for every service, that comes through their doors. That is one measure. It’s not the measure that we choose to use in the government. The measure we’ve been using after, frankly, overhauling the way in which the former government reported on bulk billing data, which we thought lacked transparency, is to ask how many GP consults are bulk billed. At the moment, it’s about 75% of GP consults across the country are bulk billed. As I said, in response to Andrew’s question, those numbers are very different depending on what market you’re looking at: Tasmania, relatively low, Western Sydney, relatively high, most of the country somewhere in between. But there’s no question that that healthcare costs, whether it’s medicines or the cost of going to a doctor, is a key cost of living pressure. And that’s why it was such a feature of our 2023 Budget.”
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/minister-for-health-and-aged-care-press-conference-29-january-2024?language=en
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