<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They're at the heart of health care and part of an $8 billion election pledge, and the most comprehensive report card on whether your family will see a GP for free has now been revealed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Exclusive data from health directory Cleanbill projects a 55 per cent jump in bulk billing clinics nationwide, with 740 additional centres.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The largest jump would be in Victoria (233), followed by NSW (213), Queensland (149), South Australia (76), Western Australia (43), Northern Territory (14), Tasmania (11) and the ACT (1).</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/israel-gaza-hamas-war-anthony-albanese-wont-join-france-formally-recognising-palestine/1b3d9f30-3d7b-441b-9816-8673fb5437aa"><strong><span>Anthony Albanese won't join France in recognising state of Palestine</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The new financial incentives kick in on November 1.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There can be little doubt: because of this policy, more Australians will be bulk billed," Cleanbill founder James Gillespie said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There are all sorts of different economic circumstances that different GPs will have to take into account."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/free-gp-bulk-billing-report/a17dcbb7-c74f-420c-b762-0490b6813afd" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Because of the payment structures, the biggest jumps are forecast outside major metro regions. But while rebates are higher, GP numbers are far lower.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nationals leader David Littleproud said: "Because they took away our doctors, foreign doctors used to be only allowed in regional areas - now the government changed that and included peri-urban areas so all our doctors left for the city."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The report found clinics that don't bulk bill will be unlikely to reduce costs.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Which means that your out of pocket costs may go up, as they have for the last three years," Gillespie said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/at-least-11-people-were-stabbed-at-a-walmart-in-michigan-and-a-suspect-is-in-custody/25e5bf8e-97ea-4769-86fd-3718e8366a50"><strong><span>Multiple people stabbed in US Walmart, suspect taken into custody</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told ABC's </span><em><span>Insiders: </span></em><span>"We want to focus very much on cost of living, that was the basis that we were elected in."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The projections are below the government's pre-election pledge of 90 per cent bulk billing rate, although that is by 2030 and the short-term the focus will be at the pharmacy.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Cutting back the cost of medicines to just $25, that's the same price as in 2004," Albanese said.</span></div></div>