GO7944: Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program

The Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program (BBPIP) was announced as part of the 2025-26 Budget as a component of Outcome 2: Individual Health Benefits, Program 2.1 Medical Benefits of the department’s Portfolio Budget Statements 2025-26.

Practices participating in BBPIP receive an additional 12.5% incentive payment on every $1 of the MBS benefits paid from eligible services, split evenly (50/50) between the GP and the practice.

Participating practices must bulk bill every eligible MBS service (Outlined at Appendix 15.3 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines) for all their Medicare-eligible patients to receive the incentive payment.

Eligible MBS services include the most common GP services such as time-tiered consultation items, health assessments, mental health treatment items, and chronic condition management items.

The BBPIP incentive payment is in addition to MBS benefits paid, and MBS BBIs are paid independently of the BBPIP incentive payments.

BBPIP is managed by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (the department).

Note: BBPIP registrations will not open until 1 November 2025.

Please refer to the most recent version of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines (version 3) published 5 January 2026.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red 'Grant Opportunity Documents' button on the left-hand side.

Practices must be an eligible practice type (General Practices, Mobile Practices, Outreach Practices, Sole Provider Practices, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, Aboriginal Medical Services, After Hours Services, Medical Deputising Services), bulk bill all BBPIP-eligible MBS services for all Medicare-eligible patients (eligible services listed at Appendix 15.3), have all eligible providers at the practice participate in BBPIP and be linked to the practice via the Organisation Register, be registered in MyMedicare (practices not already MyMedicare-registered are exempt from MyMedicare accreditation for BBPIP via a declaration), register for BBPIP via the Organisation Register (registration available from 2025-11-01), and meet the BBPIP Healthdirect and signage requirements (with some practice types exempt from physical signage).

Providers must be a vocationally-registered GP, non-vocationally-registered GP, or GP registrar; hold a valid Medicare Provider Number for the eligible practice; be linked to a MyMedicare-eligible practice recorded as participating in MyMedicare and BBPIP in the Organisation Register; hold an eligible specialty code (Appendix 15.2); and bulk bill all eligible services for all Medicare-eligible patients.