Patient Information & Fees
New Patient Information
Obtain a referral
Prior to booking your first appointment, please visit your regular GP to obtain a referral.
Book an appointment
Once we receive your referral from yourself or your GP, our friendly team will contact you to arrange an appointment time.
Bring your information
Please bring your Medicare card, private health card and any previous specialist reports or relevant medical imaging to your first appointment.
What to expect
Your first consultation is often a longer meeting and can take up to half an hour on most occasions. Your medical history, issues and previous operations are discussed. These other issues can have an important influence on your current problem and how it is managed. Obviously, the focus will be on the problem you have been referred for, but your background health issues are sometimes very important.
A physical examination will also be performed at this visit with a focus on the relevant problem area and any other body system that could influence the treatment of your current problem.
Once your assessment is complete, you will then be advised of the next step in your treatment. Sometimes further tests such as blood tests, x-rays or scans are required. In other cases, you will be recommended an operation/procedure and, on some occasions, other treatment such as antibiotics or anti-inflammatory medication may be a better option than surgery depending on circumstances.
If an operation/procedure is recommended, a good proportion of this visit goes into a discussion about the surgery itself, what are the benefits and what are the risks. At this time, it is also explained what to expect before and after the surgery.
Private Specialist Consulting Fees
Private Paying
Patients
Initial Consultation — $130
*Eligible for Medicare rebate
DVA
Patients
Bulk billed
Private Health Insured
Patients
No gap
Hospital Fees
DVA/Private Health Insured Patients
Dr Pradeep does not charge gap payments for privately insured or DVA patients. We participate in direct billing arrangements with all health funds.
This means that patients will not receive accounts from us for hospital based services such as operations, gastroscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopic procedures and in-hospital consultations. There may be some out of pocket costs associated with pathology, assistant fees and anaesthetic services. In addition, private health funds may require patients to pay an excess to the hospital depending on their level of cover.
Private health funds can provide more information on excess fees for hospital admissions.
Uninsured Patients
Uninsured patients undergoing procedures will have an out of pocket expense and patients will be required to pay:
- Surgeon Fee
- Hospital facility fee (plus any prosthetists) Please be aware, the out-of-pocket expense for the hospital facility fee cannot be claimed from Medicare.
- Anaesthetic fee
- Assistant fee
- Pathology charges
Please contact our rooms for further information regarding fees.