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Protecting the integrity of our public health schemes

Professional Services Review (PSR) exists to protect the integrity of Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). In doing so it also protects patients and the community in general from the risks associated with inappropriate practice, and protects the Commonwealth from having to meet the cost of services provided as a result of inappropriate practice.

Health practitioners covered by the PSR Scheme include any practitioner that provides Medicare or PBS services. This includes; medical and dental practitioners, podiatrists, chiropractors, physiotherapists and optometrists.

The PSR Scheme is the process used for reviewing and investigating the provision of services by a person to determine whether the person has engaged in inappropriate practice.

On this web site you can find out more about PSR as an organisation; how the PSR Scheme works; and how a PSR Committee undertakes a hearing and reaches a decision on the Health Practitioner (also known as the Person Under Review or PUR). You can also find out more about the important role the PSR Director plays in this process, and where the Determining Authority fits into the scheme.

A comprehensive legal section provides a broad and comprehensive set of legal materials and information on the legislative and regulatory frameworks in which the PSR Scheme operates.