Your MBS Quick Guide for February
AusDoc’s February MBS Quick Guide for GPs is now available. For detailed descriptors and further details, go to mbsonline.gov.au. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the medical…
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New Year 2024 Telehealth and COVID-19 Quick GuideÂ
AusDoc’s January telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide is now available. Changes that will see in the new year 2024 include the removal of all…
January 2024 MBS Quick Guide
AusDoc’s January 2024 MBS Quick Guide for GPs is now available. Changes that will see in the new year include the removal of all nicotine and…
Only half of doctors understand Medicare item requirements: MDO survey
Barely half of doctors understand Medicare item requirements or know where to find information on billing, suggests a medical defence organisaton survey. In a survey…
Axe rebates for non-GP specialists who charge double the schedule fee: union
Doctors who charge double the Medicare schedule fee should lose access to rebates for those consultations, the Health Services Union says. The union has taken…
Is the ‘biggest ever’ bulk-billing boost the game changer Mark Butler desires?
Today marks the biggest financial injection into GP bulk-billing in Medicare’s history, according to Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler. Whether this translates…
The new $191 level E consult is ‘no quick fix’ for complex care, says top GP
The RACGP and AMA finally won their battle for a level E consultation item on Medicare this year after many years of fighting. Alongside higher…
November’s MBS changes are meant to be big, big news: What they mean for you
Increased bulk-billing incentives, a new higher rebate for 60 minute plus consultations, along with new items for phone calls and aged care are coming into…
MBS items for initial specialist consults conducted via video face the axe
Specialists will be prevented from claiming MBS items for initial consults via video under a crackdown suggested by the MBS Review Advisory Committee. The committee…
Clamp down on existing relationship exemptions in telehealth rules, MBS Review suggests
The MBS Review is suggesting scrapping Medicare’s telehealth items for smoking cessation and enforcing an existing relationship rule on the items for pregnancy counselling. The…
