Current Factsheets

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Page last updated: 27 February 2024

March 2024

Minimally invasive ventral rectopexy – ongoing item 32118

Changes to in and out of hospital benefit for plastic and reconstructive surgery services

Three new items relating to plastic and reconstructive surgery for nurse practitioners

Co-claiming limitations of subsequent attendance items with certain Group T8 surgical operations

Spinal surgery Medicare Benefits Schedule item changes to exclude use for Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT)

Single operator, single use peroral cholangiopancreatoscopy for the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures and removal of difficult biliary stones

Intracranial aneurysm item – Amended item

Exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) stress testing – New item

Cardiothoracic surgery – Amended item for complex replacement or repair of aortic arch

Intravascular ultrasound guided coronary stent insertion – New item

Leadless permanent cardiac pacemaker – Amended items

Replication of three items into the Relative Value Guide (RVG) for Anaesthesia

Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS)

Insertion of a marker clip following a breast biopsy

Streamlining First Nations Australians’ access to allied health services

Multidisciplinary case conference items for complex neurodevelopmental disorders and eligible disabilities

Changes to thoracic surgery Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): introduction of two new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items and removal of four outdated MBS items

Changes to psychiatry services from 1 March 2024

Orthopaedic Surgery – New and amended MBS items


January 2024

Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2024

Extension of temporary Pathology items for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and other respiratory pathogens

New item for homologous recombination deficiency testing of patients with ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer

MBS Telehealth Services - from 1 January 2024

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination - item continuation

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation - Amended items


November 2023

Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery MBS changes commencing 1 November 2023

Plastics and reconstructive surgery MBS changes commencing 1 November 2023

New and amended items for leadless permanent cardiac pacemaker

Expanding patient access to Cleft Dental Services

Bulk Billing in General Practice from 1 November 2023

Introduction of new Level E consultation items lasting 60 minutes or more

Other Medical Practitioner and General Practitioner Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items administrative changes

Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - Changes to musculoskeletal ultrasound supervision requirements

Nuclear medicine item 61485 - One-off schedule fee increase

Introduction of 6 minute minimum time for MBS Level B GP consultations

1 November 2023 pathology MBS changes


September 2023

Changes to MBS item 72814 for Programmed Cell Death Ligand (PD-L1) testing from 1 September 2023

Verbal assignment of benefit arrangements for telehealth services


August 2023

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) items - complete service advice


July 2023

Extension of MBS Item 32221 for removal or revision of an artificial bowel sphincter

Orthopaedic surgery – minor amendment to item 49706

Plastic and reconstructive surgery MBS changes

Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) for chronic graft versus host disease (sGVHD)

Diagnostic Imaging Services Table – Changes commencing from 1 July 2023

Therapeutic nuclear medicine MBS changes

Amendment to existing skin excision and skin flap items

Mental Health Case Conferencing

1 July 2023 pathology MBS changes

17p chromosomal deletion testing for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma – MBS item 73343

Heart health assessment items


April 2023

Full versus Partial Medicare-eligible MRI machines in the Diagnostic Imaging Services Table


March 2023

Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery MBS changes

Diagnostic Imaging Services Table - New MBS item for whole body MRI scan

Thoracic surgery MBS changes

Complex neurodevelopmental disorder and eligible disability changes to MBS items

Changes to clinically suspected melanoma items to include indexation

Family and Carer Participation under the Better Access Initiative


February 2023

Medicare Support for COVID-19 Vaccinations


January 2023

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination - item continuation

Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) caps on new ultrasound items

Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2023

Extension of temporary pathology items for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and other respiratory pathogens

Assessment for a COVID-19 oral anti-viral medication



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