The Australian GP rulebook, answered straight.
AHPRA pathways, the Medicare moratorium, fellowship routes, billing benchmarks — the things that decide where you can work and what you can earn. Ask Lumi in plain English and get an answer written for Australian general practice, not a general one.
The questions that hold up
a move.
Not trivia — the ones that decide whether you can take a role, and whether it’s worth taking.
I have a UK CCT — which AHPRA pathway applies to me?
Lumi walks you through the specialist pathways, what your qualification maps to, and what AHPRA will want to see.
Can I bill Medicare at this clinic, or does 19AB stop me?
The moratorium is address-specific. Lumi explains what DPA means for the practice in front of you and where exemptions apply.
RACGP or ACRRM — which fellowship should I be aiming for?
Both lead to vocational registration by different routes. Lumi lays out the practical differences, not the brochure ones.
Is a 65% billing split reasonable for where I am moving?
Lumi gives you the benchmarks for the kind of practice you are moving into, so you can tell a fair offer from a poor one.
What does MM4 actually change for me day to day?
Modified Monash affects incentives, bulk-billing loadings and which programs you qualify for. Lumi translates it.
How long will a Medicare provider number take?
Lumi sets out the sequence, the realistic timeframes and the documents that most often cause a delay.
Real questions.
Real answers.
This is Lumi answering the questions doctors actually send it — not a mock-up written to look good.
Lumi GPGP Guide OnlineAsk. Read. Move on.
Ask in plain English
No forms, no decision trees. Type the question the way you would ask a colleague who happens to know the answer.
Get a straight answer
Written for Australian general practice specifically — the rules as they apply here, not a general summary that half-applies.
Know what to check
Lumi tells you where a decision actually gets made — AHPRA, Services Australia, Home Affairs — so you can confirm it and move.
Most of what you’ll find is almost right.
Which is the dangerous kind of wrong. Australian general practice rules turn on details that generic guidance flattens — and getting one wrong can cost you a job offer or a year of your pathway.
DPA is decided per clinic address, not per town. Two practices a few streets apart can give you completely different answers on Medicare.
DPA and Modified Monash are separate systems measuring different things. Most general advice treats them as one, and the conclusions fall apart.
Pathways, incentives and thresholds change. An article from three years ago reads exactly as confidently as one from last month.
Lumi is the best starting point you’ll find for this — and the last word is still yours.
Every answer comes from a knowledge base we build and maintain by hand for Australian general practice, and we keep it current deliberately. It will get you further, faster, than an evening of searching. But the rules move, and no AI is infallible — ours included. So before anything binding, confirm it at the source: AHPRA for registration, Services Australia for Medicare, Home Affairs for visas.
And if an answer ever looks wrong to you, tell us. We check it, we fix it, and the next doctor asking that question gets a better answer than you did. That is genuinely how this gets sharper — a lot of what Lumi knows came from doctors who took the time to say something.
The long answers.
Free, no access code needed. Written the way we’d explain it to a colleague.
How to work as a GP in Australia as an IMG
Registration, pathway, provider number and the order to do them in.
Read the guide →Section 19ABThe Medicare moratorium explained
What the ten-year rule means, how DPA decides it, and where exemptions apply.
Read the guide →Choosing a collegeRACGP vs ACRRM fellowship
Two routes to vocational registration, and how to tell which one fits you.
Read the guide →What you can earnGP billing rates in Australia
Splits, benchmarks and what changes with location and billing model.
Read the guide →Lumi tells you where you can work. Heart Bridge Health finds you the clinic.
Once you know your pathway and what you can bill, the next question is who to work with. Heart Bridge Health is a direct marketplace — you browse Australian clinics privately, see the roles that match, and message practices yourself. No recruiter, no agency, and free for doctors.
- Browse clinics privately — nobody sees you until you both agree
- Roles filtered to what you are actually eligible for
- Message the practice directly and agree your own terms
- Always free for GPs — clinics are the paying side
Lumi answers the question.
The marketplace answers “where?”
Before you start.
Ask Lumi your first question.
Free for every doctor, whether you’re moving to Australian general practice or already in it.
Lumi gives guidance, not a determination. Confirm anything binding with AHPRA, Services Australia or the Department of Home Affairs.
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