For Specialists
Never walk alone
Your journey with Dokotela will be as part of a supportive team, not a sole practitioner left unsupported with your professional challenges. We provide full-service support to our team and promote a culture of quality and collaboration.
Benefits to Specialists
Flexible and Convenient
- Work where, when and as much as you like
Easy
- All of your administrative, billing, and secure technology needs provided
Collaborative
- Supportive group of Specialists to assist you in dealing with any complications that may arise
Full-service support
- Comprehensive training for you to deliver efficient high-quality telehealth
- Supportive peer group of specialists you can rely on
- Medical Advisory Council offering you leadership and support
- Responsive operations team to manage your appointment scheduling and billing
- Complaints handling process to assist you with issues that arise
- Regular peer review to help you continuously improve
- Work flexible hours that suit you and your lifestyle
- You will receive appropriate financial compensation for your expertise and diligence
- Do not wait for referrals, we are busy practice with referrals available for you
- Leading practice management software reduces your medicolegal risk, improves clinical outcomes and maintains data security
Contact us for a confidential discussion and a live demonstration of an initial patient consultation with our medical director
How it works
Get in touch
Send us your contact information so that we can get in touch with you
Confidential discussion and more information
Dokotela’s Head of People will be in touch to introduce Dokotela and arrange a more in depth discussion with our Medical Director
Training and support
Dokotela’s team will be in touch to provide training and support and hold your hand through your first experience with Dokotela
Practitioners
Psychiatrist
Joshua Flavell
Language Spoken: English
Psychiatrist
Dr Vinay Ramineni
Language Spoken: EnglishConsultant Psychiatrist
Dr Joshua Flavell
Language spoken: English
Dr. Joshua Flavell is a consultant psychiatrist with specialised training in neuropsychiatry and
psychogeriatrics, dedicated to cognitive disorders. He trained in both New South Wales and Queensland,
earning an advanced certificate in neuropsychiatry and a fellowship in cognitive disorders. Dr. Flavell is
committed to providing compassionate, patient-centred care, ensuring comprehensive assessment and
management for his patients.
Psychiatrist
Dr Vinay Ramineni
Language spoken: English
Dr Vinay is a consultant psychiatrist who focuses on the treatment of adult psychiatric conditions, and believes that a collaborative and holistic approach to mental health is critical to recovery. He completed his medical training at the University of Queensland and has worked at several hospitals in Queensland. Additionally, he has also completed advanced training in addiction psychiatry.
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Dr Lulu Xing
Language spoken: English
Dr Xing is a general adult psychiatrist with an interest in various forms of psychotherapy and applying these as part of the overall treatment plan when appropriate. She graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2009, and obtained fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) in 2018. She has worked in both public and private mental health sectors, rural / remote settings and non-government services. She hopes to assist each person in finding the most suitable path forward, to the best of her ability.
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Dr Raj Dangi
Language spoken: English
Dr. Raj Dangi is a distinguished General Adult Psychiatrist with over two decades of experience, practicing in both the public and private sectors. His extensive experience in India and the UK, in both outpatient and in-patient settings, uniquely equips him to provide expert care to individuals from a wide spectrum of socio-cultural backgrounds and ethnicities.
Dr. Dangi holds an MBBS, DPM, MRCPsych (UK), CCT, FRANZCP, with sub-specialisation in addiction psychiatry. He is an honorary lecturer at Monash University, and is accredited for ECT administration. He is actively involved in psychiatry training and medical education. Awarded the Clinical Excellence Award in 2017, Dr. Dangi has published research in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Dangi’s clinical expertise includes psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, delusional disorders, drug-induced psychosis), mood/affective disorders, Depression, perinatal conditions, anxiety disorders (such as generalised anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder, PTSD, panic disorder, phobias, OCD, somatisation), and various personality disorders. His special interest areas include ADHD, comorbid substance abuse, and mental health.
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Dr Aneuryn Rozea
Language spoken: English
Dr Rozea has experience working in psychiatry in both metropolitan, regional and remote settings in fact-to-face, FIFO and Telehealth roles. He has worked in specialised services for eating disorders, neuropsychiatry, perinatal mental health and treatment resistant schizophrenia. He has expertise in treating Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety Disorder, PTSD and Adjustment Disorder as well as in neuro stimulation. Dr Rozea is drawn to working in Telehealth due to a long term desire and interest in improving access and equity in healthcare.
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Dokotela’s aim is to make telehealth hassle-free. We take care of all the administration so that you can focus on providing high-quality care to your patients.
This includes:
- Setting up a secure telehealth virtual room
- Onboarding/marketing to GPs Bookings and calendar management
- Reception service (rebooking, sending treatment plans/correspondence to GPs etc)
- Billing
We hold your hand through the whole process so you can just focus on providing high-quality clinical care.
We currently provide over 1,000 consultations per month. We are a group of 35 Specialists- most are part-time a few work full-time.
Collaborative Care Model
Dokotela is different from most telehealth platforms because of the model that we always work collaboratively with GP’s in managing their patients.
Practically, we do this by always trying to arrange appointments at the GP medical practice and requesting every patient to have time discussing the treatment plan with the Specialist, GP, and carers. We also request the GP to write the prescriptions to engage the GP more closely in the treatment of their patient.
We provide educational input, diagnostic clarification, suggestions regarding medication and possible side-effects and recommend appropriate e-health psychological services. We also ask about local psychosocial services with which the patient can engage.
- We work as a team, we often refer patients for 2nd opinions within our team of Specialists
- We manage complaints on your behalf by having an assigned complaints officer who will contact the patient and ask how best to resolve the dissatisfaction, often by offering a 2nd opinion. Most complaints relate to miscommunications that can usually be easily resolved
- We have a Dokotela Whatsapp group for our Specialists to communicate their questions and concerns. We are all very supportive and offer advice and assistance to this group
Payment for services will be received by Dokotela so we can confirm all your appointments have been paid and there are no outstanding debtors. Each Monday you will receive a statement of payment and funds will be deposited into your account for the week prior.
Please ensure you provide MBS items immediately following each appointment to avoid payments being delayed. When you start with Dokotela you will be required to complete a Medicare form for payment details, this should be sent to us at least 10 business days before you start consulting to avoid your first payment being delayed. The principal cost in telehealth is patient non-attendance.
Dokotela operations staff work very hard to keep this to a minimum, we are constantly refining our processes. If 50% of your patients don’t attend then effectively the Specialist is paying a 50% fee! We make sure that doesn’t’ happen to our Specialsits. The quality of our operations team saves you a large amount of time and money.
Clients generally pay out-of-pocket fees unless funded by a third party (primary health network, DVA, workcover etc.)
Some general psychiatry appointments are bulk billed at the Psychiatrists discretion for some clients in a rural or regional area as defined by the Modified Monash Model – MM2-7; in an aged care facility or an Aboriginal Medical Service.
Clients will be required to pay the appointment fee and we will then process the Medicare rebate on their behalf.
If a patient requests a service separate from their treatment (reports, letters, forms etc.) it is at your discretion what you would like to charge the patient (we can let you know what other Specialists charge if helpful).
If a patient wants to have a consult from home for a particular reason we will ensure the patient is appropriate for a home appointment.
If you see a patient who is inappropriate for management via video conference you can speak to the GP and tell him/her that this is the case – this is your clinical decision.
You can discuss concerns with other Specialists on the WhatsApp group at any time (or call our Medical Director).
- You can specify what types of work you will/won’t do
- All practitioners are required to consult with Dokotela a minimum of 4 hours per week. This is to cover the cost of the subscriptions required to be on the platform.
- You can work within your scope of practice, although by its nature telehealth tends to stretch the clinical problems that you will encounter.
- For example, if you are not comfortable prescribing Psychostimulants we will make a note of this and not send you these patients