Quick Guide for Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items — the August issue
AusDoc’s August telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide is now available. Included are the changes that came into play with the new financial year.…
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MBS Quick Guide for August
AusDoc’s MBS Quick Guide for August is now available. Annual indexation was applied to all the general medical service items at the start of the new…
What you need to know about the new aged care incentive
Rural practices accessing the new aged care incentive can provide four of their eight annual visits via telehealth if required, the Department of Health and Aged Care says. The incentive,…
Expand funding for GLP-1 RAs and continuous glucose monitors: federal diabetes inquiry
Patients with diabetes should have access to longer subsidised appointments with allied health professionals and greater access to GLP-1 receptor agonists, a parliamentary inquiry has…
RACGP demands return of $80 MBS item for COVID-19 antiviral prescribing
The RACGP is lobbying the Federal Government to bring back the $80.10 MBS item for COVID-19 antiviral prescribing that was axed on Monday. The college…
Should GP remuneration for mental health care be based on patient outcomes?
Australia’s mental health care system is struggling to cope with the demand. But more money won’t necessarily mean everyone gets the care they need. As…
Telehealth MBS Quick Guide for July – FY25 rebates and updates
The new financial year brings indexation of rebates and a raft of changes to items and exemptions to AusDoc’s Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS Items Quick Guide From…
MBS telehealth existing relationship exemption for patients with COVID-19 gets the chop
Patients with COVID-19 will be restricted to telehealth consultations with their regular practice from 1 July after Medicare scraps their exemption to the existing relationship…
Bring back telephone items for chronic disease care plans, MBS Review tells govt
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…
July MBS Quick Guide – indexation for FY25
AusDoc’s MBS Quick Guide for July is now available, which includes updated rebates with indexation for the new financial year. Annual indexation applies to all the general…
