Bring back telephone items for chronic disease care plans, MBS Review tells govt
It also called for more phone MBS items for follow-up consultations with non-GP specialists.
The Federal Government should restore telephone items for GPs writing and reviewing chronic disease care plans, the MBS Continuous Review has recommended in its final report on Medicare-funded telehealth.
It has also abandoned its draft recommendation to scrap video telehealth items for initial appointments with non-GP specialists and called for more telephone items for non-GP specialist follow-up consultations.
