Is it legal for anaesthetists to charge booking or administration fees?
24 March 25Can 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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How should an on-call obstetrician bill for attending a delivery but not being involved in any pre or postnatal care when the MBS items all seem to include postnatal care?
17 March 25If 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 >When (if ever) is it appropriate to bill multiple consultant physician attendances (MBS Items 110 & 116) on the same day?
17 March 25Can 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…
Can rehabilitation physicians bill for an ultrasound when using it to guide botox injections for spasticity?
10 March 25I 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 >Can nurse practitioners bulk bill public hospital outpatients if they do it under their own ABN?
10 March 25I 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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As a cardiologist, can I bill an attendance item when I am acting as the surgical assistant for an interventional cardiology case?
3 March 25I 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 the public hospital outpatient clinic can MBS be claimed?
3 March 25If 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 professional attendances rendered by a registrar be billed by a supervising specialist who does not physically attend the patient?
24 February 25Can 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 >Can an anaesthetist bill a pre-anaesthetic consultation when taking a sedated & ventilated patient from the intensive care unit for a CT scan?
24 February 25As 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 >What conditions need to be fulfilled to bill a consultation as well as a referred imaging service?
17 February 25As 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…
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