One of the country’s biggest bulk billing medical centre chains and mental health providers systematically rorted Medicare over a number of years while authorities failed to act on a series of tip-offs and red flags, leaked documents show.
in an attempt to quell growing calls for a royal commission into Medicare.
His message included a plea to the department to protect him, saying, “Tristar has a history of torturing their staff, especially whistleblowers”.He said the department’s compliance operations branch made initial contact but didn’t follow him up. He left Tristar a few months later. “The Fair Work Ombudsman also come up short and now after the fact are doing a bigger investigation despite countless Tristar employees making notifications. A sick system that has failed many,” he said.
Its liquidators, McGrathNicol have studied the financials and believed it may have been insolvent from at least June 2019, which is just before a Tristar employee warned ASIC of solvency issues. Tristar did not respond to a series of questions about the management of Tristar and inappropriate Medicare billing by some of the doctors.
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