I am a rehabilitation physician that works at a public hospital that offers rehab in the home and hospital in the home for patients, as part of early discharge or hospital substitution strateg…
read more >I understand that nurse practitioners (NP) cannot bill outpatients seen in public hospital outpatient clinics but what about private hospital outpatient clinics?
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read more >On an internal referral written by a Specialist/ Physician does the patients GP details have to be written as per the Health Insurance Regs Section 99. As it is an internal referral the patien…
read more >Can anaesthetists charge patients a separate administration or booking fee of say $1,000 before they are admitted to hospital for their anaesthetic?Â
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read more >If an on-call obstetrician attends a delivery on behalf of the primary obstetrician (perhaps because they are unavailable at that time), should the on-call obstetrician bill with Medicare and …
read more >Can you please weigh in on the following question? I sent this to askMBS and got something of an unhelpful answer.
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Dear Medicare Support Team,I am writing to seek formal clarification re…
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…
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