Mark Butler backs crackdown on GP co-claiming MBS nurse items with chronic disease plans
GPs will need to contact the health department to confirm the 'rare circumstances' in which the items can be claimed on the same day, Mr Butler says.
The federal Minister for Health and Aged Care has backed his department after it warned 600 GPs against co-claiming a $12.70 practice nurse MBS item with chronic disease care plans.
The nudge letters sent to GPs earlier this year caused a storm, amid their warnings that claiming MBS item 10997 for practice nurse–led chronic disease care at the same time as care plan items 721 and 732 should not be done “routinely”.
