FOI 26-2883 – Submissions from ForHealth/BGH Capital to the Minister

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The release comprises two pre-budget submissions from ForHealth, a general practice and urgent care provider, to the Minister for Health and Aged Care, for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 Budgets. Both argue for expanding the Bulk Billing Incentive (BBI) and Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) funding. The 2024-25 submission proposes raising BBI eligibility income thresholds and extending the child age cut-off from 16 to 18 (about $370m a year), raising MBS indexation from 4.1% to 5.0% (about $260m), and expanding UCCs from 58 to 100 sites with peak-capacity and regional grants (about $125m). The 2025-26 submission seeks universal BBI eligibility (about $1,010m a year, citing a bulk-billing rate rise from 77% to 86%) and expansion from 87 to about 200 UCC sites (about $280m). Claims are company-sourced and largely unverified, including a roughly 60% diversion from EDs and a 9-in-10 recommendation rate.