The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has rejected the government's attempt to link eligibility for the eHealth Practice Incentives Program (ePIP) payment to meaningful use of the PCEHR.

Echoing similar arguments made by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) in its submission on the Department of Health's ePIP discussion paper, the AMA said in its submission that the ePIP was a practice-level payment, not one made to individual practitioners, and that a better way to encourage GPs to participate in the system is to remunerate them through an MBS item or a Service Incentive Payment (SIP).