A WANGARATTA doctor has been partly paid the amount owed to him by Tristar Medical Group soon after completing a media interview on the situation he believes to be more serious than portrayed to date.
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Dr Reno Riandito told The Border Mail yesterday he was owed six weeks pay by the medical group he had worked for since 2015, but shortly after four weeks worth of wages were transferred into his bank account.
The Border Mail had contacted Tristar for right of reply to Dr Riandito's claims.
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A Tristar GP colleague in Wangaratta was also partly paid an amount he was owed.
It also admitted to experiencing "windows of financial and workforce capacity strain".
Dr Riandito said apart from his personal experience he was also concerned with the non-payment of other employee entitlements including superannuation.
"I am prepared to speak out as this is not right," he said.
"It's not just affecting me personally, but also affecting all other GPs in different regions, nurses and admin staff not getting their superannuation.
"Moreover this will have an impact in the health service delivery in regional areas which are crying out for medical professionals.
"I don't have exact knowledge of how widespread GPs not getting paid is, but I do know there's been a lot of emails circulating since April 2018 about GPs from different locations complaining about not getting their payment on time."
Dr Riandito previously worked at the Bali International Medical School from 2007 to 2015 when he began working for Tristar in Geelong before transferring to Wangaratta in mid-2018.
He said he wouldn't leave because he wanted to honour his contract and private practice didn't allow him to transfer his bulk-billing patients.
"I'm also still on a working visa, which is sponsored by Tristar," he said.
"I've also got a moral obligation and clinical responsibility to my patients to keep fronting up to work even though I had not been paid."
Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation was also contacted for comment by The Border Mail.
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