Current Factsheets

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Page last updated: 27 November 2024

November 2024

Removal of legislated collaborative arrangements

Changes to MBS benefit for eyelid reconstruction item 45614 from 1 November 2024

1 November 2024 pathology MBS changes

Diagnostic Imaging Services Table – Changes from 1 November 2024

Relative Value Guide – changes to cell salvage item 22002

Haemorrhoid treatments – changes to items 32135 and 32139

TAVI standby cardiac surgeon amendments - items 90300, 38514, 38522 for low and intermediate surgical risk patients - Quick Reference Guide

Inpatient telehealth psychiatry services

Updates to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for radiation therapy items from 1 November 2024


October 2024

Eligibility for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment changes from 1 July 2025


July 2024

Nurse practitioner MBS changes from 1 July 2024

Temporary nuclear medicine items 61470 and 61477 – item continuation and one-off fee increase

Changes to supervision requirements for nuclear medicine imaging services from 1 July 2024

Otolaryngology and diagnostic audiology changes commencing 1 July 2024

Capital Sensitivity exemption changes to diagnostic imaging services

Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging for rare genetic conditions associated with risk of renal tumours – new items for 1 July 2024

1 July 2024 pathology MBS changes

MBS Telehealth Services - from 1 July 2024

Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and related colonoscopy item changes for 1 July 2024

Changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for radiation therapy items


May/June 2024

Complex neurodevelopmental disorder and eligible disability changes to MBS items

Insertion of marker clip(s) following a breast biopsy

MBS funded investigations for sleep disorders – current professional guidelines


March 2024

Minimally invasive ventral rectopexy – ongoing item 32118

Changes to in and out of hospital benefit for plastic and reconstructive surgery services

Three new items relating to plastic and reconstructive surgery for nurse practitioners

Co-claiming limitations of subsequent attendance items with certain Group T8 surgical operations

Spinal surgery Medicare Benefits Schedule item changes to exclude use for Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT)

Single operator, single use peroral cholangiopancreatoscopy for the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures and removal of difficult biliary stones

Intracranial aneurysm item – Amended item

Exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) stress testing – New item

Cardiothoracic surgery – Amended item for complex replacement or repair of aortic arch

Intravascular ultrasound guided coronary stent insertion – New item

Leadless permanent cardiac pacemaker – Amended items

Replication of three items into the Relative Value Guide (RVG) for Anaesthesia

Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS)

Insertion of a marker clip following a breast biopsy

Streamlining First Nations Australians’ access to allied health services

Multidisciplinary case conference items for complex neurodevelopmental disorders and eligible disabilities

Changes to thoracic surgery Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): introduction of two new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items and removal of four outdated MBS items

Changes to psychiatry services from 1 March 2024

Orthopaedic Surgery – New and amended MBS items

Changes to Category 7 – Cleft and Craniofacial Services


January 2024

Medicare Safety Net Arrangements – 1 January 2024

Extension of temporary Pathology items for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and other respiratory pathogens

New item for homologous recombination deficiency testing of patients with ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer[/<p>]

MBS Telehealth Services - from 1 January 2024

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination - item continuation

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation - Amended items



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