7 ‘obsolete’ procedures being delisted from MBS
6th May 2016
The government has confirmed that 24 ‘obsolete or underused’ MBS items are to be deleted from 1 July, based on the recommendation of the independent MBS Review Taskforce.
Health Minister Sussan Ley says the MBS items that cover imaging, ENT, gastroenterology and obstetric procedures cost $6.8 million in the previous year and had been used 52,500 times.
They are being removed because they are out of date and no longer represented best practice, she says.