Fees
FEES: Our usual fees for a normal 15 min doctor medical consultation are set at a very low rate when you enroll with us and the PHO (low fee access practice). There are also low fees for nurse checks or consultations. Fees for patients not enrolled are higher - for details see fees table below. Fees are higher for longer appointments, surgery or full medicals (immigration , insurance, pre-employment etc) Details are available on our fees table or please enquire. Wherever possible we will inform you of cost prior to offering extra services. An appointment made and not kept and not cancelled at leat an hour before it is due will incur a $10 penalty fee. Some services or checks are free or government subsidized such as nurse sexual health checks in under 25 year olds or diabetes annual reviews.
CREDIT POLICY: Payment can be in cash, or eftpos or credit card on the day of service . A collection fee of 10$ will be added if no payments is made within 14 days .An appointment made and not kept and not cancelled at leat an hour before it is due will also incur a $10 fee.. Automatic payment orders for paying off debt can be made with your bank and we can assist with this. Debts of more than 100$ will be transferred to a debt collection agency for further management..These agencies may add further fees.
PRESCRIPTIONS: The medical council suggests that patient be reviewed before a prescription is issued, so this means that you will generally need to see the doctor. If you are stable and well, repeat prescriptions may be issued at the discretion of the doctor, please ask to speak to the nurse. Repeat prescriptions without seeing the doctor have to be paid for at the time of collection and are issued within 24h.
Patients registered with Pfeffer Medical Services
VERY LOW COST ACCESS FEES
Patients enrolled more than 3 months
During normal hours 08H00 – 16H00
Normal consultation 15 min
Medical or ACC part charge
Children up to age 14.....................free $0
Children age 14 –17............................. $12.50
Adults 18+ .............................................$18.50
Skin clinic liquid nitrogen cryotherapy
Also see under "information for patients" about these monthly clinics
Assessment only, no liquid nitrogen treatment Normal consultation fees as above
see enrolled and nonenrolled patients
Liquid nitrogen cryotherapy treatment
Enrolled and nonenrolled patients
Treatment given, 1-5 lesions................ $80.00
Additional lesions treated , add $10 per lesion
Maximum lesions treated in one session is 10
Free services
Enrolled patients children visits up to age 14
Flu vaccines patients qualifying for subsidy
Childhood scheduled vaccinations
Before school health check
Nurse telephone follow up
Nurse triage phone advice
Sexual health check under 25 years old
Diabetes annual screening review
Nurses arranging recall review and follow up
Palliative care visits for dying cancer patients
Casual patients or not registered for 3 months
NORMAL FEES
Discount 10$ for community services card or senior citizen gold card
During normal hours 08H00 – 16H00
Normal consultation 15 min
Medical or ACC part charge
Children up to age 14......................... $15.00
Children age 14 –17........................... $30.00
Adults 18+ ......................................... $60.00
minus $10 for community/gold card holders
Skin surgery
Skin surgery charges do depend on the materials used, how many lesions are tackled, and the doctor and nursing time.
For community card holders and because of the long waiting lists in the public system a $100 discount applies.
Base fee assuming removal of one lesion taking up to 1/2 hour and not including materials ........................................... $200.00
Follow-up visits about results and for wound and dressing change and suture removal
with nurse ........................................... $10.00
with doctor........................................... $20.00
qualifies for government subsidy minus $100
Still not sure or not mentioned here? Ask!
Nurse surgical dressing and debriding
of plantar warts
..........................................................$15.00
Fees for nurse services
Nurses are health professionals and an essential and valuable part of our team when it comes to advice , follow-up and health checks. They're time isn't free and charges do apply even if you do not see a doctor. Some special health checks and services done by our nurses are free or government funded - for example sexual health checks for under 25 year olds
Nurse review less than 5
eg BP check......................................... $5.00
Nurse review 5-15 min ....................... $10.00
Nurse review more than 15min............ $15.00
Other Services
Prescription charge, enrolled patient not seen
adult ..........................................................$10.00
child under 14 free, over 14 ......................$5.00
Forms completed or letters written for third parties and completed without patient visit being neccessary, depends on time taken or needed
minimum ...................................................$15.00
hourly rate in 10min increments ..............$180.00
Driver's medical and completing of forms
...................................................................$30.00
Driver's vision check only and completing forms..........................................................$15.00
Insurance medical and completing of forms up to 1/2 hour............................. .................$100.00
every extra 10min................. ...................$25.00
Immigration medical, arranging tests and xrays and completing all forms
................................................. ..............$300.00
Home visit or resthome visit out of hours
for enrolled patients only, by arrangement
up to 1/2 hour
.................................................................$80.00
every extra 10min....................................$25.00
Add extra 1$/km for visits > 5km from surgery
Vaccinations not in the usual vaccination schedule eg chicken pox, travel vaccines,flu vaccines for those not eligble for subsidy
Cost of vaccine (with courier and handling fee)
plus 50$ (for appointment with nurse, administartion , monitoring and potentially treating allergic reaction)