MBS items for team care arrangements to be scrapped from November
Changes flagged in the 2023 budget are finally happening.
Medicare items for writing and reviewing GP care plans will receive equal rebates from November, but it means that the rebates for team care arrangements will be scrapped, the Federal Government has confirmed.
Reforms to care plans, which are worth over a billion dollars a year to general practice, were originally announced in the 2023 federal budget.
Item 723 for team care arrangements is currently worth $130.25 and was claimed 2.8 million times over the last financial year.
That item will be scrapped, but item 732 for a care plan review — currently worth $82.10 — will rise to the same rebate as the care plan item 721.
