This incentive supports general practices to provide their patients with appropriate access to after hours care.

Read the After Hours Incentive guidelines, effective November 2016.

This incentive encourages general practices to keep up to date with digital health and adopt new health technology.

Information about how to comply with the eHealth Incentive is available on the My Health Record Website.

Read the eHealth Incentive guidelines.

This incentive encourages GPs to provide increased and continuing services in Australian Government funded residential aged care facilities.

Read the General Practitioner Aged Care Access Incentive guidelines, effective 1 July 2021.

This incentive supports practices and Indigenous health services to provide better health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

You can register patients for the Indigenous Health Incentive using PIP Online in HPOS.

You can also use the relevant forms:

• PIP Indigenous Health Incentive and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Co-payment Measure Patient registration and Consent form (IP017).
• PIP Indigenous Health Incentive and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Co-payment Measure Patient withdrawal of consent form (IP029).

Read the Indigenous Health Incentive guidelines, effective from April 2019.

This incentive encourages GPs in rural and remote areas to maintain local access to surgical, anaesthetic and obstetric services.

We make this payment in February and August each year.

Read the Procedural General Practitioner Payment guidelines, effective June 2017.

This incentive is a payment to general practices that participate in quality improvement activities to improve patient outcomes and deliver best practice care.

You can read more about the PIP Quality Improvement Incentive on the Department of Health website.

This includes the Guidelines, PIP Eligible Data Set Data Governance Framework, and 10 Improvement Measures.

The PIP Quality Improvement (QI) Incentive commenced 1 August 2019. It is a new payment to practices that participate in activities to support continuous quality improvement in patient outcomes and the delivery of best practice care.

There are two components required to qualify for the PIP QI Incentive payment:

1. Participate in continuous quality improvement
   The PIP QI Incentive will reward practices for participating in continuous quality improvement activities in partnership with PHN. Practices may undertake quality improvement activities that focus on specified Improvement Measures. There are no set targets for the Improvement Measures. Practices can also choose to focus their activities on other areas. These areas must be informed by their clinical information system data and meet the needs of their practice population.
2. Provide de-identified data to PHN
   General practices registered for PIP QI are required to submit de-identified data to the PHN. Our PHN uses de-identified data to provide feedback to practices by providing a benchmark report each quarter. This will help you identify continuous quality improvement opportunities.
   To notify your patients that your practice is involved in sharing de-identified data, the following resource is available: “How does my general practice use my information” – De-Identified Data Poster [PDF].
   If a patient expresses concern and wishes to opt out of the de-identified data sharing, you are able to remove individual patients, prior to data being sent to PHN. For steps on how to do this, please refer to the PENCS website.

This incentive recognizes the difficulties of providing care, often with little professional support, in rural and remote areas.

Read the Rural Loading Incentive guidelines, effective from November 2013.

This payment encourages practices to provide teaching sessions to undergraduate and graduate medical students preparing to enter the Australian medical profession.

Read the Teaching Payment guidelines, effective from August 2018.