From 20 April 2020:

Bulk-billing:
Specialists and allied health providers are no longer required to bulk-bill COVID-19 telehealth (video conference) and telephone consultations where the service is provided to a concessional or vulnerable patient or a child under 16. Specialists and allied health providers may continue their usual billing practices.

GPs and Other Medical Practitioners must continue to bulk-bill the COVID-19 telehealth and telephone consultation services where the service is provided to a concessional or vulnerable patient or a child under 16 at the time the service is provided. For all other patients, these services may be bulk-billed.

Bulk-billing incentives items:
Bulk-billing incentives items are currently available for medical services for patients who are either under 16 years old, or who are a concessional beneficiary (items 10990, 10991 and 10992).

Two new bulk-billing incentive items are now available where a medical service is provided to a vulnerable patient:
- item 10981 mirrors the current item 10990 metropolitan
- item 10982 mirrors the current item 10991 regional

The new bulk-billing incentive items 10981 and 10982 can be claimed with face-to-face attendances or with the new COVID-19 telehealth and telephone services, where the conditions of the bulk-billing incentives are met.

New telehealth items:
24 new telehealth items are now available for specialists: six new items for consultant psychiatrists (mirroring the existing items 342, 344 and 346), eight new items for public health physicians (mirroring items 410, 411, 412 and 413) and 10 new items for neurosurgeons (mirroring items 6007, 6009, 6011, 6013 and 6015)
4 new telehealth items are now available for a practice nurse or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner (mirroring items 10987 and 10997)

The XML can be downloaded from the April Downloads page.

The complete list of telehealth items is available on the COVID-19 news page.

SPECIALIST, CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN AND PSYCHIATRIST ATTENDANCES for COVID-19 (these items are included in numerical order in the table of Specialists items on the COVID-19 news page) These services are for non-admitted patients Consultant psychiatrist
* Group psychotherapy of not less than 1 hour (2-9 unrelated patients or a family group of more than 3 patients)	342	92455	92495
* Group psychotherapy of not less than 1 hour (family group of 3 patients)	344	92456	92496
* Group psychotherapy of not less than 1 hour (family group of 2 patients)	346	92457	92497

PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIAN ATTENDANCES for COVID-19 These services are for non-admitted patients
Service	Existing Items face to face	COVID-19 Telehealth items video-conference	COVID-19 Telephone items – for when video-conferencing is not available
* Public health physician, Level A, simple and straightforward	410	92513	92521
* Public health physician, Level B, less than 20 minutes	411	92514	92522
* Public health physician, Level C, lasting at least 20 minutes	412	92515	92523
* Public health physician, Level D, lasting at least 40 minutes	413	92516	92524

NEUROSURGERY ATTENDANCES for COVID-19 These services are for non-admitted patients
Service	Existing Items face to face	COVID-19 Telehealth items video-conference	COVID-19 Telephone items – for when video-conferencing is not available
* Neurosurgeon, initial attendance	6007	92610	92617
* Neurosurgeon, minor attendance	6009	92611	92618
* Neurosurgeon, subsequent attendance, 15 - 30 minutes	6011	92612	92619
* Neurosurgeon, subsequent attendance, 30 - 45 minutes	6013	92613	92620
* Neurosurgeon, subsequent attendance, more than 45 minutes	6015	92614	92621

ATTENDANCES for COVID-19 Services Provided By A Practice Nurse Or Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner On Behalf Of A Medical Practitioner These services are for non-admitted patients
	Existing Items face to face	COVID-19 Telehealth items video-conference	COVID-19 Telephone items – for when video-conferencing is not available
* Follow up service for an Indigenous person who has received a health assessment	10987	93200	93202
* Service provided to a person with a chronic disease	10997	93201	93203