Understanding The ASO Practice Overheads Study

Public and political debate has increasingly framed private specialist fees as excessive; a characterisation that overlooks what it genuinely costs to deliver ophthalmic care. The profession is best placed to correct this with clear, current evidence, and that is what the ASO Practice Overheads Study is designed to provide.

The survey captures the real costs of running a practice (staff, premises, IT, equipment, intravitreal injections and more) and builds on the familiar 2016-17 survey. Your responses give us a robust, evidence-based foundation to represent your interests to government.

This webinar will allow our members to hear from the economists and steering committee about how this survey will be undertaken and what the results will help drive in a political setting. 

Meet the presenters:

Anthony Crook

Economist, Pioneering Economics

Anthony Crook has worked across government and the private sector assisting and driving reform. He has a broad body of policy reform analysis in health, education and labour markets. His reports have been relied on as part of long term reform initiatives such as the Hogan Review of Aged Care (basis for creating Home Care and pricing reforms), the Bradley Review of Higher Education which was the basis of the expansion of university and VET education with greater emphasis on the needs of the future labour market.
More recently, Anthony has worked with the Australian Medical Association to help support doctors views and policies to government. Papers such as “Cycles of Crisis”, which took a long term examination of the damning implications of funding caps in public hospitals on the future delivery of care, have delivered substantial funding reforms to national funding agreements (the NHRA). 
 

Dr Bradley Horsburgh

Chair RANZCO Medicare Advisory Committee

Dr Brad Horsburgh has had more than 20 years experience as a comprehensive ophthalmologist.

Over the period holding public hospital VMO positions at the Mater & Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospitals; treating public patients, teaching medical students and guiding ophthalmic registrars. After more than 20 years, he still finds it a joy and privilege to be involved in improving and protecting peoples’ eyesight, our most treasured sense.

He attends annual interstate and overseas conferences,  ensuring maintenance of his profession standing. His subspecialty interests include cataract, glaucoma and adult squint surgery.  Dr Horsburgh has served as President of the Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO), & President of the Australian Society of Ophthalmologists. He has also represented ophthalmology on the Australian AMA Federal Council for eight years.

Bradley specialises in cataract surgery, adult strabismus surgery and general ophthalmology.