A TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRICES OF GENERAL PRACTITIONER SERVICES UNDER MEDICARE, 1984-1996 * by L B CONNELLY School of Economics and Finance Queensland University of Technology and D P DOESSEL Department of Economics The University of Queensland * We gratefully acknowledge financial assistance for this study from both the General Practice Evaluation Program, as administered by the General Practice Branch of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services, and the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology. We acknowledge also the assistance of the Medicare Statistics Branch of the Department of Health and Family Services for providing data for this study. Needless to say, the usual caveat applies.