I am hoping for some clarification around using the item number 55848 for ultrasound. Rehabilitation medicine physicians require ultrasound guidance for botulinum toxin injections. Assuming th…
read more >I am a nurse practitioner (NP) and am locked in a debate with my public hospital employer/management about MBS billing of NP services provided to public hospital outpatients. Is this allowed?
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I am a cardiologist. Sometimes I assist at interventional cardiology procedures and claim the assisting item 51303. However, every time I co-claim item 110 it is rejected but I think I should …
read more >If Doctor A writes a named referral to Doctor B from Doctor A’s private rooms to a public hospital outpatient clinic and through the triage process Doctor A is assigned the patient to treat in…
read more >Can Category 1 Professional Attendance items (e.g., 104, 105, 110, 116) serviced by a registrar, be billed ‘on behalf of’ a specialist or consultant physician if the supervising provider i…
read more >As an anaesthetist who is not rostered in the intensive care unit (ICU), I am sometimes asked to go to ICU and take a ventilated and sedated patient to radiology for various imaging procedures…
read more >As an obstetrician running an ultrasound practice, what conditions need to be fulfilled to bill for a consultation as well as the referred imaging service when attending and performing complex…
read more >We are trying to bill a preputioplasty. Would item numbers 30658 and 45203 work for this?Â
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read more >If 92210 is the telehealth equivalent of item 599, does this mean the doctor would also have to visit the patient, or open the consulting rooms? I am very confused by this.
I asked AskMBS and…
I work in an ICU with separately rostered day and evening / night shift intensivists who are in person and conduct an evening ward round. Can the evening intensivist bill a 110 or 116 item num…
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