For practice owners & managers
Conference.care makes it easy for your clinicians to coordinate Medicare-funded case conferences — bringing in new revenue, deepening referral relationships and reducing admin, all from one secure platform.
Join practices across Australia · GP, specialist & allied health.
Trusted by health practitioners across Australia
The unfortunate truth
A patient with several long-term conditions needs input from an entire multidisciplinary team.
In practice, they rarely get it. Costs are prohibitive, wait times are ludicrous, and limited Medicare funding covers just 5 allied health sessions a year under a care plan.
Consequently, their GPs are left managing their care largely alone, without meaningful multidisciplinary input.
The consequence
A patient with several long-term conditions takes long consults, coordination and follow-up that is never billed, and appointments that overrun.
GPs find these patients the hardest to carry. Growing complexity is now the challenge GPs name more often than any other, and most are dissatisfied with the time they spend on care Medicare does not fund.
of GPs name the growing complexity of patient presentations as their most common challenge
GPs report burnout
The solution
Case conferences are multidisciplinary meetings where a GP sits down with specialists, allied, and mental health to agree on needs, goals and a treatment plan for complex patients.
These discussions are rebated by Medicare — so the coordination that was non-billable becomes a rebated session, with a team in it.
Why practices choose Conference.care
Put the case to clinicians who aren’t treating your patient and get discipline-specific thinking on what’s driving the presentation.
Indicators
Referrals, letters, scripts and recalls each run one way at a time, and you are the only person who hears all of it. A case conference puts everyone already involved in the one conversation, so the plan is agreed once.
Indicators
Conference.care is a clinical service, not a piece of software you are left to run. We keep a credentialled team of local specialists and allied health clinicians with real-time availability, ready to join your GPs’ case conferences.
The platform is what makes that practical: it builds the team around each patient, finds a time, records consent, captures the notes during the call and prepares the documentation behind the claim.
Invite the GPs you want conferencing, and any specialists or allied health you already work with. Each gets their own login and calendar sync.
One-off, or the same time every week, set around each doctor’s diary. Everything else is built around that.
Your GPs add the patients they want to discuss and the input they need.
Any patient with a chronic or complex condition is eligible.
Yuliya RichardPsychologist
Andrew IlieffPhysiotherapist
Michelle TheodosiDietitian
Anthea KarseboomOccupational therapist
Hayden FisherExercise physiologist
Marianne Del PapaDiabetes educator
Anita FranklinMental health social worker
David WalkleyChiropractor
Emma SnelgarMental health nurse
AndreaPodiatrist
David John EdwardsPsychologist
Danielle ClintonPhysiotherapistYour GP picks the disciplines the patient needs; we invite the best available clinicians from our 1,000+ local specialists and allied health. Nobody at the practice chases anyone.
All specialists, allied health, and GPs are eligible.
Each discussion is a short, secure video session inside Conference.care. Your doctors join from the consulting room or from home; the platform captures the notes and supports the claim.
Your GP claims an MBS item every time they coordinate a conference, and the specialists and allied health who join claim their own.
Figures are indicative and do not constitute financial or clinical advice. Conference duration, frequency and composition remain clinical decisions for the coordinating practitioner.
This certifies that Dr A. Rao took part in a
Multidisciplinary case conference
The same minutes that earn the item earn CPD, logged from the time actually spent in the room. Where it goes depends on the college.
Team composition, duration tiers, frequency intervals and the right item number — the platform holds you to each of them as you schedule, run and document the conference, so a claim is never left to memory.
Every clause of the case-conferencing items, and how the platform meets it, is set out on one page.
How it works for your practice
Your GPs add the patients they want discussed; the team is built around each one.
Conference notes and referrals flow to admin for upload to the patient record.
See conference activity and the revenue your practice is generating at a glance.
How much can your clinicians make?
Case conferences are rebated across GP, specialist and allied health item numbers — at rates well above standard consults. Estimate the upside for your practice with our revenue & local-health-need tool.
Enter your location, clinician count and service fee to see what case conferencing could generate for your practice — alongside the chronic-disease needs most elevated in your area.
Open the estimatorWhether you organise the conference or join one, Conference.care clears the coordination, compliance and paperwork — so your time goes to the clinical discussion.
Conference.care is completely free for practices — no subscription and no per-conference charge. Your clinicians claim the Medicare rebates; we never take a cut.
Who’s behind it
Conference.care was founded and is led by Australian GPs.
Co-founder · FRACGP
Former RACGP federal president
Former RACGP federal vice president
For practices not already set up for telehealth, we help your clinicians get going — the equipment they need, the setup, and a run-through before their first conference.
Compliance & security
Developed in consultation with Avant Law, the legal arm of Australia's largest medical defence organisation, so compliance is handled as a forethought, not an afterthought.
Short, practical references for your practice.
Medicare-funded case conferencing for GPs — eligibility, rebates and how it works, on one page.
A5 take-away for the patient — what a case conference is, who takes part and what it means for their care.
The practice-level view: what case conferencing changes for your practice and how to get started.
Questions
Yes — completely free, with no subscription and no per-conference charge. Your clinicians claim the Medicare rebates as usual; we never take a cut.
Case conferences are rebated by Medicare, across GP, specialist and allied health item numbers. It is a funded activity your clinicians can offer complex patients — not a reclassification of work they already do.
Yes. Conference.care integrates with the major Australian PMS, including Best Practice, MedicalDirector and Genie, so records and referrals flow between your systems and the conference team.
Very little. Documentation, consent capture and referrals are routed to admin ready for upload — the coordination and compliance prompts are built into the platform. For a detailed walkthrough, see the Practice Admin Guide.
Yes. Practice staff can view, manage and report on upcoming and past conferences across all your clinicians from one place.
No — Conference.care runs in any web browser. For practices not already set up for telehealth, we'll help get you up and running.
Any other questions? Ask in the chat at the bottom for an immediate answer. Our clinician-led team will pick up anything requiring their specialist advice.
Revenue estimator
Model the case-conferencing revenue your practice could generate — and see the local burden of chronic disease your patients carry.
Open the calculatorCompletely free for practices. Help your clinicians deliver better-coordinated care — and get paid for the time they already spend.
