In this section
- Current Factsheets
- All Fact Sheets
- Changes to MBS items for orthopaedic surgery services
- 1 July 2023 pathology MBS changes
- 1 March 2021 fee increase for item 30630
- 17p chromosomal deletion testing for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma – MBS item 73343
- Accreditation for SARS-CoV-2 Testing
- Acupuncture Services MBS item changes
- Allied Health Case Conferencing
- Alternative positron emission tomography (PET) item for use during gallium-67 supply disruptions
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for diagnosis of hypertension
- Amended MBS mental health and wellbeing telehealth items
- Amendment to existing skin excision and skin flap items
- Amendment to MBS item 51071 for spinal surgery
- Anaesthesia Age Modifier Items
- Appropriate Billing of MBS Item 13950
- Assessment for a COVID-19 oral anti-viral medication
- Autologous Fat Grafting
- Blood Product Services
- Capital sensitivity exemption changes to diagnostic imaging services
- Cardiac implantable loop recorder (ILR) devices - new MBS items for remote monitoring
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination - item continuation
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination
- Cardiac Services T8 Item amendments
- Cardiac Stress Echocardiography and Stress Myocardial Perfusion Studies (MPS) - Claiming Information Guide
- Cardiothoracic surgery MBS item changes
- Cessation of Approved Collection Centre pathology measures
- Cessation of the temporary Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for nuclear medicine factsheet
- Change to Botulinum Toxin Injection Item 18365 Factsheet
- Change to MBS medical perfusion (item 22060) factsheet
- Changes for diagnostic imaging services factsheet
- Changes to Anaesthesia MBS items
- Changes to Colonoscopy services
- Changes to emergency medicine services
- Changes to MBS - 26 February 2021
- Changes to MBS anaesthesia items
- Changes to MBS colonoscopy items factsheet
- Changes to MBS heart health assessment items 699 and 177
- Changes to MBS heart health assessment items factsheet
- Changes to MBS item 72814 for Programmed Cell Death Ligand (PD-L1) testing from 1 September 2023
- Changes to MBS items 15900 and 31516 factsheet
- Changes to MBS items 30196 and 30202
- Changes to MBS items 37207 and 37208 factsheet
- Changes to MBS items for breast biopsy services factsheet
- Changes to MBS Items for colonoscopy services factsheet
- Changes to MBS items for intensive care services
- Changes to MBS varicose vein items
- Changes to Obstetric MRI items factsheet
- Changes to the MBS - 26 February 2021
- Chemotherapeutic Procedures Factsheet
- Childhood Access to Anaesthesia Services Factsheet
- Claiming Microbiology Tests for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) factsheet
- Clarifying clinical intent of spinal decompression items (MBS items 51011 to 51015)
- Clarifying the clinical intent of partial rhinoplasty (MBS item 45632)
- Clinically suspected melanoma item fee changes to include 2022 indexation
- Co-claiming of subsequent attendance items with group T8 surgical operations.
- Colorectal Surgery MBS Item Changes
- Complex neurodevelopmental disorder and eligible disability changes to MBS items
- COVID-19 high risk group temporary exemption from established relationship requirement
- COVID-19 Temporary MBS Telehealth Services
- Cryoablation for biopsy-confirmed renal cell carcinoma - New MBS item
- CT Angiography of Pulmonary Arteries and Minor Changes
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS) - New MBS item 40863 for remote programming of a neurostimulator
- Determining lesion size for MBS items 31356 to 31388 selection
- Diagnostic imaging capital sensitivity 1 May 2022 exemption changes factsheet
- Diagnostic Imaging Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Item and Rule Changes
- Diagnostic Imaging Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item changes for 1 July 2022
- Diagnostic imaging Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item changes for 1 November 2021
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - Changes commencing from 1 July 2023
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - New MBS item for whole body MRI scan
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) – minor amendment to MBS Item 32230
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) from 1 November 2021
- Ensuring Appropriate Use of Neurosurgery and Neurology Services
- Ensuring Appropriate Use of Neurosurgery and Neurology Services
- Expanded patient access to mastopexy (MBS item 45558)
- Expanded patient access to Transcatheter occlusion for the Left Atrial Appendage
- Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) caps on new ultrasound items
- EXTENDING MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR AGED CARE RESIDENTS DURING COVID-19
- Extension of COVID Pathology Items
- Extension of MBS Item 32221 for removal or revision of an artificial bowel sphincter
- Extension of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Laboratory Testing Items
- Extension of temporary pathology items for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and other respiratory pathogens
- Extension of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pathology Items
- Extracorporeal Magnetic Innervation (ExMI) factsheet
- Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) for chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD)
- Factsheet Change to item 18361
- Factsheet Changes to Nuclear Medicine items
- Factsheet ECP for the Treatment of CTCL
- Factsheet for Additional 10 MBS Mental Health Sessions
- Factsheet for changes to item 73343 to enable testing for acalabrutinib
- Factsheet for MBS item 69501
- Factsheet for MBS item 73295
- Factsheet for MBS item 73344
- Factsheets for 2018
- Factsheets for 2019
- Factsheets for 2020
- Factsheets for 2021
- Factsheets for 2022
- Family and Carer Participation under the Better Access Initiative
- Fee loading for bulk billed consultant psychiatrist telehealth attendance - New MBS item 294
- Full versus Partial Medicare-eligible MRI machines in the Diagnostic Imaging Services Table
- Gallium-67 - New temporary diagnostic imaging MBS item
- General Surgery Services changes factsheets
- Genetic testing changes for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) immunotherapy
- Genetic testing for alpha thalassaemia - amendment to Pathology MBS item 73410
- Genetic testing for BRCA1/2 gene variants for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
- Genetic Testing for Childhood Syndromes
- Genetic Testing for Hydatidiform Moles
- Genetic testing for major fetal structure abnormalities
- Genetic testing for neuromuscular disorders - new pathology MBS items 73422 to 73428
- Genetic testing for neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase (NTRK) fusion in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumours
- Genetic testing for people with multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Group Therapy MBS Changes under the Better Access Initiative
- Gynaecology MBS item changes
- Gynaecology – minor changes
- Heart health assessment items
- Inclusion of communication time when claiming time-tiered MBS items
- Introducing a New Stroboscopy MBS Item
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment MBS eligibility changes
- MBS COVID-19 Management Support Service
- MBS Support for People in COVID-19 Hotspots
- MBS Telehealth Services
- MBS Telehealth Services from 1 July 2022
- MBS Telehealth Services from January 2022
- Measurement of Faecal Calprotectin as a Marker of Bowel Inflammation
- Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item 42739 factsheet
- Medicare Compliance and Telehealth Services
- Medicare Indexation of Diagnostic Imaging Services Factsheet
- Medicare Indexation Schedule
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangement - 1 January 2021
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangement - 1 January 2022
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangements - 1 January 2019
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2023
- Medicare Safety Net Thresholds from 1 January 2019
- Medicare Safety Net Thresholds from 1 January 2020
- Medicare Support for COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Medicare Support in Response to Omicron - GP and Other Medical Officer (OMP) Longer Telephone Consultation.
- Melanoma excision services MBS item changes
- Mental Health Case Conferencing items
- Mental Health Services for Bushfire Response
- METex14sk testing to access tepotinib on the PBS - new item 73436
- Minor change to colorectal surgery MBS item 32006 for left hemicolectomy
- Minor changes to MBS Items for Orthopaedic Surgery
- Minor changes to sleep study items 12205 and 12207 factsheet
- Minor changes to spinal surgery items factsheet
- Minor changes to thoracic medicine items.
- Modernising Cardiac Surgical Services
- National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) MBS item amendments
- Neuromyelitis Optica Testing
- New and amended Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
- New arrangements for GP Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) services
- New items using blue-light cystoscopy (BLC) with hexaminolevulinate (HAL) for improved diagnosis, treatment and management of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC)
- New Items – Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Therapy
- New Items – Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Therapy
- New Items – Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Therapy
- New MBS item 30175 for abdominoplasty
- New MBS Item for micro bypass glaucoma surgery (MBGS)
- New MBS Item for mobile provision of skeletal x-ray to patients within residential aged care facilities factsheet
- New MBS item for vertebroplasty
- New MBS items for Transcatheter Mitral Valve repair
- New MBS telehealth items for the remote programming of auditory implants and/or sound processors
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item for percutaneous transcatheter delivery of a dual filter Cerebral Embolic Protection Device (CEP) during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item for prostate biopsy guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) factsheet
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item for surgical correction of congenital ear deformities
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Items for contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the liver
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for FDG positron emission tomography (PET) for the evaluation of breast cancer factsheet
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for breast cancer factsheet
- New Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for obstetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients at ≥ 18 weeks gestation with suspected fetal central nervous system abnormality
- New temporary MBS item 32118 for minimally invasive ventral mesh rectopexy
- New temporary Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for nuclear medicine factsheet
- Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Counselling MBS Services
- Orthopaedic Surgery - minor changes
- Orthopaedic surgery amendments to eight MBS items
- Orthopaedic surgery – minor amendment to item 49706
- Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery MBS changes
- Paediatric Surgery MBS item changes
- Pain Management Services Changes
- Participating Midwives MBS Item Changes
- Pathology Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item changes for 1 July 2022
- Pathology Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item changes for 1 September 2022
- Personal attendance for musculoskeletal ultrasound and personal supervision for nuclear medicine imaging services
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery MBS changes
- Point-of-care HbA1c testing for patients with diagnosed diabetes
- Pre-implantation Genetic Testing (PGT)
- Previous Years Factsheets
- Privacy Checklist for Telehealth Services
- Programmed Cell Death Ligand (PD-L1) testing changes to pathology MBS item 72814
- Remote reprogramming of a neurostimulator for the management of chronic pain
- Removal of age restriction for glucocorticoid injections of keloid lesions (MBS Item 30210)
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Therapy – updated FAQ
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy on the MBS
- Requests for diagnostic imaging services versus referrals for other services under Medicare
- Rural Bulk Billing Incentive Changes
- Safe and Best Practice Cardiac Imaging Services
- SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and other respiratory pathogens pathology items
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLNBx) for intermediate thickness Melanoma
- Split of MBS item 45626 for correction of entropion or ectropion due to trachoma or non-trachomatous causes factsheet
- Substitute positron emission tomography (PET) item for use during thallium-201 supply shortage
- Suspension of substitute Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for nuclear medicine
- Telehealth MBS eligibility for COVID-19 positive patients
- Telehealth Services Provided by GPs and Non-Specialist Medical Practitioners to Patients in Rural and Remote Areas
- Temporary COVID-19 MBS Telehealth Services – specialist inpatient services
- Temporary COVID-19 Allied Health Support Services and GP/OMP Services for Aged Care Residents.
- Therapeutic nuclear medicine MBS changes
- Thoracic medicine items – minor updates
- Thoracic surgery MBS changes
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) items - complete service advice
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) – new and amended services
- Upcoming changes to MBS items - Eating Disorders
- Upper eyelid reduction surgery - Changes to MBS item 45617
- Urology Services Factsheet
- Varicose vein MBS item changes
- Verbal assignment of benefit arrangements for telehealth services