Diabetes Education
Our ADEA credentialed Diabetes Educator, Maggie Stewart is a specialist in diabetes. As a health professional, her focus is on helping people to self-manage their diabetes effectively and prevent complications.
For diabetic patients aged 17+, her sessions include:
- Diabetes education – Type 1 and Type 2
- Insulin commencement and ongoing management
- Gestational diabetes – education and ongoing management
- Insulin pump therapy education including pump preparation, upgrades, new pump starts and ongoing management and education
- Blood glucose calculator meters – to assist with managing insulin when counting carbohydrates
- Blood glucose meters – provision, education and set up
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring – both blinded and real time
Maggie has been working in health care for 36yrs specializing in diabetes for the past 15 years. Maggie’s’ passion is to enable people living with diabetes to understand and be able to manage their condition so that their diabetes is one piece of their life not their whole.
Maggie has a special interest in insulin pump therapy and CGMS technologies
Maggie works with people living with diabetes combining best practice evidence with real life daily challenges to achieve best health outcomes.
Available
Tuesday 9:00am – 6:00pm
Thursday 9:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday (once a month) 9:00am – 1:00pm
Pricing
Initial Consultation – $147 (allow up to 60 minutes)
Return Consultation – $87 (allow up to 30 minutes)
Patients with EPC (Enhanced Primary care) plans from their GP can claim using their medicare card with a rebate of $61.80 towards the cost of your initial or return consultation.
Please ensure that you bring along your medicare card to your appointment.
There are no private health rebates available for this service.
Using a Medicare GPCCMP for Podiatry or Diabetes Education (GP Chronic Condition Management Plan)
From July 2025 Medicare has changed how these care plans work and your GP no longer has to allocate the exact number of visits to allied health practitioners. If your GP does not stipulate how many visits you are allocated we don’t know how many you need and how many have been used towards external allied health providers. This is going to impact our ability to claim for you. If there isn’t a number provided on your referral we will ask you how many visits you would like to allocate to your service.
We will always try to claim for you however if we receive a decline from medicare you’ll need to:
- Check your visit count in the MyGov App
- Call Medicare directly on 132 011
Here’s what you need to know about using Medicare for your allied health visits:
- Your GP creates your Care Plan, they can allocate up to 5 visits across various Allied Healthy Modalities.
- Medicare tracks your visits, it is also up to you to track how many visits you’ve used and where.
- Full payment is taken and we then process your Medicare claim for them to issue your rebate.
Out-of-pocket payments:
- If Medicare doesn’t approve a visit, you’ll still be responsible for paying for your appointment on the day.
If your GPCCMP runs out you’ll still be able to continue seeing your practitioner as normal and pay for your appointments privately or with Private Health Insurance (for Podiatry only.)
Contact Me
Maggie Stewart
Contagious Enthusiasm Wellness Centre
362 Hampton Street Hampton Victoria 3188
TEL: (03) 9603 0334
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