A GP-turned-Coalition-backbencher has slammed the Federal Government’s attempts at Medicare reform, and laid down a few ideas of his own.

Andrew Laming - a qualified eye specialist and member for the federal seat of Bowman in Queensland - is calling for a crackdown on “cowboy” doctors and suggests that financial rewards should be given to high-performing doctors.

“At the moment we don't have speed limits on doctors,” Dr Laming told the ABC.

“I think that if you're seeing more than 10 patients per hour you can't be delivering quality medicine, doesn't matter how smart you are.

“So we do need to be looking at ways to pull the cowboys up. It's been a difficult discussion that's never really been had,” he said.

Dr Laming said reform needs to disallow bad behaviour and, as importantly, incentivise good work.

“And that means identifying some targets for patients, rewarding GPs that hit them and of course no rewards for those that don't,” he said.

“It's a hard world out there but we have to be looking after people with chronic disease and making sure that they're in the hands of the best possible providers.”

The calls come just days after new Health Minister Sussan Ley said she would actually consult key groups in the health sector on potential reforms.

It will be the Government's third attempt to overhaul Medicare.

Dr Laming said his senior colleagues could have handled the Medicare debate better.

“All power to Sussan Ley - she'll be consulting widely,” he said.

“There's plenty of good people who can come up with some good ideas, but as I've said, 2014 was not a good year in Medicare reform and we need to make sure that the shadows of 2014 don't affect this consultation process.”