In this section
- Current Factsheets
- All Fact Sheets
- Changes to MBS items for orthopaedic surgery services
- 1 January 2025 pathology MBS changes
- 1 July 2023 pathology MBS changes
- 1 July 2024 pathology MBS changes
- 1 July 2025 MBS Pathology Changes
- 1 July 2026 Pathology Services Changes
- 1 March 2021 fee increase for item 30630
- 1 March 2025 Pathology Changes - Amendment of MBS items 73296 and 73297 for BRCA-related breast, ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer due to family history
- 1 November 2023 pathology MBS changes
- 1 November 2024 pathology MBS changes
- 1 November 2025 MBS pathology changes
- 1 November 2026 Pathology Services Changes
- 17p chromosomal deletion testing for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma – MBS item 73343
- Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging for rare genetic conditions associated with risk of renal tumours – new items for 1 July 2024
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Services – Changes to Terminology
- Accreditation for SARS-CoV-2 Testing
- Acupuncture Services MBS item changes
- Allied Health Case Conferencing
- Allied health services for complex neurodevelopmental disorders and eligible disabilities – Addition of accredited dietitians and exercise physiologists
- Allied health services for eligible disabilities – Addition of stuttering, speech sound disorders and cleft lip and/or palate
- Allied health services for eligible disabilities – Addition of stuttering, speech sound disorders and cleft lip and/or palate
- Alternative positron emission tomography (PET) item for use during gallium-67 supply disruptions
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring change to item 11607
- 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
- Amendments to electrocardiogram (ECG) items 11707 and 11714
- Anaesthesia Age Modifier Items
- Appropriate Billing of MBS Item 13950
- Assessment for a COVID-19 oral anti-viral medication
- Autologous Fat Grafting
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): introduction of two new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items and removal of four outdated MBS items
- Better Access changes from 1 November 2025
- Blood Product Services
- Bone Densitometry and PSMA PET services
- Bulk Billing in General Practice from 1 November 2023
- Bulk Billing Incentives – Changes to Eligibility
- Capital sensitivity exemption changes to diagnostic imaging 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 - item continuation
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for myocarditis from 1 January 2025
- Cardiac Services T8 Item amendments
- Cardiac Stress Echocardiography and Stress Myocardial Perfusion Studies (MPS) - Claiming Information Guide
- Cardio-thoracic procedures: Co-claiming restrictions on Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) items 38511 and 45018
- Cardiothoracic surgery MBS item changes
- Cardiothoracic surgery – Amended item for complex replacement or repair of aortic arch
- Category 7 – Cleft and Craniofacial Services changes for 1 July 2025
- Cessation of Approved Collection Centre pathology measures
- Cessation of COVID-19 vaccine support items from 1 July 2025
- 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 Category 7 – Cleft and Craniofacial Services
- Changes to Colonoscopy services
- Changes to emergency medicine services
- Changes to in and out of hospital benefit for plastic and reconstructive surgery services
- Changes to MBS - 26 February 2021
- Changes to MBS anaesthesia items
- Changes to MBS benefit for eyelid reconstruction item 45614 from 1 November 2024
- 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 psychiatry services from 1 March 2024
- Changes to supervision requirements for nuclear medicine imaging services from 1 July 2024
- Changes to the definition of infertility
- Changes to the MBS - 26 February 2021
- Changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for radiation therapy items
- Changes to thoracic surgery Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items
- Chemotherapeutic Procedures Factsheet
- Childhood Access to Anaesthesia Services Factsheet
- Chronic disease management by consultant physicians
- Claiming Microbiology Tests for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) factsheet
- Clarifying clinical intent of spinal decompression items (MBS items 51011 to 51015)
- Clarifying MBS Items that are Hospital Only Services - Tranche 2
- Clarifying MBS Items that are Hospital Only Services
- Clarifying the clinical intent of partial rhinoplasty (MBS item 45632)
- Clinically suspected melanoma item fee changes to include 2022 indexation
- Co-claiming limitations of subsequent attendance items with certain Group T8 surgical operations
- Co-claiming of subsequent attendance items with group T8 surgical operations.
- Co-claiming restrictions on MBS items 30621, 48406, and 48409 with 25 cardiothoracic surgical procedure items
- Colorectal Surgery MBS Item Changes
- Complex neurodevelopmental disorder and eligible disability changes to MBS items
- Continuous nerve blockade for post-operative pain management from 1 March 2025
- 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
- Device agnostic transcatheter mitral valve repair, TMVr, by transvenous or transeptal techniques in patients with degenerative-primary mitral valve regurgitation
- 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 - Changes from 1 July 2025
- Diagnostic Imaging Services and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine Procedures – 1 November 2025 changes
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - Changes commencing from 1 July 2023
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - Changes to musculoskeletal ultrasound supervision requirements
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - New MBS item for whole body MRI scan
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table – Changes from 1 November 2024
- Diagnostic Imaging Services Table: New ultrasound item for complex gynaecological conditions
- Eligibility for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment changes from 1 July 2025
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) – minor amendment to MBS Item 32230
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) from 1 November 2021
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and related colonoscopy item changes for 1 July 2024
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection – Minor amendments regarding co-claiming restrictions
- Ensuring Appropriate Use of Neurosurgery and Neurology Services
- Ensuring Appropriate Use of Neurosurgery and Neurology Services
- Exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) stress testing – New item
- Expanded patient access to mastopexy (MBS item 45558)
- Expanded patient access to Transcatheter occlusion for the Left Atrial Appendage
- Expanding patient access to Cleft Dental Services
- 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 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)
- Fact sheets for 2025
- 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
- Factsheets for 2023
- Factsheets for 2024
- 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
- Geriatrician or consultant physician assessment and management plans
- Group Therapy MBS Changes under the Better Access Initiative
- Gynaecology MBS item changes
- Gynaecology – minor changes
- Haemorrhoid treatments – changes to items 32135 and 32139
- Health assessments for persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent
- Heart health assessment items
- Implementation of MBS Review Taskforce recommendations to optometry items - 1 March 2025
- Inclusion of communication time when claiming time-tiered MBS items
- IncobotulinumtoxinA (Xeomin) injection for chronic sialorrhea treatment due to neurological or neurodevelopmental disorders
- IncobotulinumtoxinA (Xeomin) injection for lower and upper limb spasticity due to cerebral palsy
- IncobotulinumtoxinA (Xeomin) injection for the treatment of spasticity associated with neurological disorders
- Inpatient telehealth (video) psychiatry services - ongoing from 1 November 2026
- Inpatient telehealth psychiatry services
- Insertion of left ventricular device (LVAD) as destination therapy
- Insertion of marker clip(s) following a breast biopsy
- Intracranial aneurysm item – Amended item
- Intravascular ultrasound guided coronary stent insertion – New item
- Introducing a New Stroboscopy MBS Item
- Introduction of 6 minute minimum time for MBS Level B GP consultations
- Introduction of new Level E consultation items lasting 60 minutes or more
- Leadless permanent cardiac pacemaker new and amended items
- Leadless permanent cardiac pacemaker – Amended items
- Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive MBS item changes
- Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive MBS items – Nurse Practitioners
- Low-dose computed tomography scans for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment MBS eligibility changes
- MBS COVID-19 Management Support Service
- MBS funded investigations for sleep disorders – current professional guidelines
- MBS Item 14245 – Changes to administration eligibility for immunomodulating agents
- 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 Healthy Kids Check
- 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 2026
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2023
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2024
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2025
- Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2025
- 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
- Menopause and perimenopause health assessment services
- Mental Health Case Conferencing items
- Mental Health Services for Bushfire Response
- METex14sk testing to access tepotinib on the PBS - new item 73436
- Minimally invasive ventral rectopexy – ongoing item 32118
- 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
- MSAC Application 1523.1 - Transluminal insertion, management, and removal of an intravascular microaxial blood pump (ImpellaŽ), for patients requiring mechanical circulatory support Quick Reference Guide
- Multidisciplinary case conference items for complex neurodevelopmental disorders and eligible disabilities
- Myringoplasty and tympanomastoid procedures changes
- 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 item for colonoscopy following a positive faecal occult blood test (FOBT)
- New item for homologous recombination deficiency testing of patients with ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer
- New items for assistance at operations by nurse practitioners
- 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 long gynaecological consultations
- 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 pathology item to detect RET gene activating variant status
- 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
- Nuclear medicine item 61485 - One-off schedule fee increase
- Nurse practitioner MBS changes
- Nurse practitioner MBS changes from 1 July 2024
- Ophthalmology services MBS Changes
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) guided coronary stent insertion
- Orthopaedic Surgery - minor changes
- Orthopaedic surgery amendments to eight MBS items
- Orthopaedic surgery – minor amendment to item 49706
- Orthopaedic Surgery – New and amended MBS items
- Other Medical Practitioner and General Practitioner Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items administrative changes
- Otolaryngology and diagnostic audiology changes commencing 1 July 2024
- Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery MBS changes
- Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery MBS changes commencing 1 November 2023
- Paediatric sleep studies - new MBS items for Level 2 investigations
- Paediatric Surgery MBS item changes
- Pain Management Services Changes
- Participating midwives MBS 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
- Patient End Support services
- Personal attendance for musculoskeletal ultrasound and personal supervision for nuclear medicine imaging services
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery changes
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery changes – Breast abnormality and genioplasty items
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery changes – Burn closure items
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery MBS changes
- Plastics and reconstructive surgery MBS changes commencing 1 November 2023
- 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
- Proton beam dosimetry and proton-photon comparative planning for assessing applications for proton beam therapy via the Medical Treatment Overseas Program (MTOP)
- Reclassification of Sport and Exercise Medicine Physicians
- Reduced timeframe to submit claims for bulk billed services
- Referrals for specialist services
- Relative Value Guide – changes to cell salvage item 22002
- Remote reprogramming of a neurostimulator for the management of chronic pain
- Removal of age restriction for glucocorticoid injections of keloid lesions (MBS Item 30210)
- Removal of Botulinum toxin from item 32150
- Removal of legislated collaborative arrangements
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Therapy – updated FAQ
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy on the MBS
- Replication of three items into the Relative Value Guide (RVG) for Anaesthesia
- 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
- Single operator, single use peroral cholangiopancreatoscopy for the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures and removal of difficult biliary stones
- Skin excision items – inclusion of healing by secondary intention
- Spinal surgery Medicare Benefits Schedule item changes to exclude use for Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT)
- Split of MBS item 45626 for correction of entropion or ectropion due to trachoma or non-trachomatous causes factsheet
- Streamlining First Nations Australians’ access to allied health services
- Substitute positron emission tomography (PET) item for use during thallium-201 supply shortage
- Suspension of substitute Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for nuclear medicine
- TAVI standby cardiac surgeon amendments - items 90300, 38514, 38522 for low and intermediate surgical risk patients - Quick Reference Guide
- Technical changes to time-tiered MBS health assessment items
- 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.
- Temporary nuclear medicine items 61470 and 61477 – item continuation and one-off fee increase
- Therapeutic nuclear medicine MBS changes
- Therapeutic nuclear medicine therapy for metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer
- Therapeutic nuclear medicine therapy for neuroendocrine neoplasm
- Thoracic medicine items – minor updates
- Thoracic surgery MBS changes
- Three new items relating to plastic and reconstructive surgery for nurse practitioners
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation - Amended items
- 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
- Upcoming changes to the MBS Chronic Disease Management Framework
- Updates to Diagnostic Imaging - 1 July 2026
- Updates to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for radiation therapy items from 1 November 2024
- 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