Welcome to the Professional Services Review Agency website
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The Professional Services Review Agency(PSR) was established in July 1994 to protect the integrity of Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The PSR Scheme is part of a strong regulatory regime that ensures that appropriate and cost-effective clinical services are delivered through Medicare and the PBS. The PSR Scheme provides the legislative framework within which services provided by a practitioner may be peer reviewed in response to a request from Medicare Australia.
The Scheme covers medical practitioners, dentists, optometrists, midwives, nurse practitioners, chiropractors, physiotherapists, podiatrists and osteopaths who use Medicare and the PBS.
Under the PSR Scheme there is a two-pronged approach to safeguarding the integrity of the Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits programs. These are to:
- protect the public from inappropriate practice by ensuring that the Commonwealth funded services delivered by practitioners are medically necessary and clinically relevant.
- protect the public from the consequences of inappropriate practice by ensuring that payments to claimants are made in accordance with the regulations for the Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefit Schedules - specifically that the service that has been provided is adequate in light of the associated requirements for the payment claimed.
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