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If an intensivist has to attend to assist with a patient that is not under their care for a life threatening emergency (e.g. cardiac arrest), is item 160-164 the appropriate items to bill (dep…
read more >I understand that if a patient is under the care of an endocrinologist for low testosterone, Tx would qualify the patient for a repeat MBS funded pathology testing as a formal hypogonadism dia…
read more >I was fascinated by your LinkedIn post that said the MBS is not the law. I (and I think the whole nation) always thought it was. How can the MBS and the law be different and what is the MBS th…
read more >What is the MBS definition of “intraoperative imaging” and what exactly does the term “including all associated intraoperative imaging” refer to with regards to item 38376. Is this an exclusio…
read more >The CFO of our public hospital gave a talk on Medicare billing recently and told us that any referral written by anyone other than a GP or specialist exercising a ROPP cannot be used to bill M…
read more >At what precise moment in time does a non-admitted patient in the emergency department become admitted? Is it when the admitting doctor makes the decision to admit, or is it after the paperwor…
read more >We received the following information. The questioner had received conflicting advice from multiple sources.
Shared Medical Appointments (SMA) are a type of group medical appointment that typ…
Having read your PhD thesis, I am curious as to whether section 51(xxiiiA.) of the Australian Constitution applies to services provided by nurse practitioners (NP) because it refers to “medica…
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