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Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year, including by billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.

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For too long, the AMA has wielded power within this country totally disproportionate to the size of its membership.

One of the country’s largest telehealth companies has bulk billed some patients at the same time as charging them a fee, a practise that is illegal.

The truth is that Medicare - the bedrock of Australia’s health system - is sick and could soon be placed on life support. 

An investigation has found billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year, thousands of people in Victoria’s north are bracing for major flooding and Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial is expected to come to an end later this week.

Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year, including by billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.

There are many ways to measure success in journalism, but the most useful is whether our reporting is interesting enough and good enough every day to prompt people to part with their money to become, and stay, subscribers.

Without the support of our subscribers we wouldn’t be able to invest in the sort of quality reporting that has been recognised in this week’s Walkley Award nominations.

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have a large number of finalists in this year’s Walkley awards, led by Kate Geraghty and Anthony Galloway, who reported from Ukraine.