Emergency Medicine

If a FACEM is paid an hourly rate whether patients attend or not (like an on-call fee), can the FACEM bulk bill patients who do attend?

11 April 26

I am a FACEM doing short shifts for a virtual emergency care provider. I am paid an hourly rate for each shift irrespective of whether patients turn up or not. It is like an on call fee and not conn…

Can a paediatric emergency physician charge for distraction techniques when taking blood?

3 April 26

I intend on setting up a private paediatric procedural clinic at a GP clinic, where distraction techniques are used for children who might be anxious or needle phobic, and/or have difficult vascular…

Can a FACEM who owns a GP clinic bill a 104 or telehealth equivalent when the GPs in the clinic ask for clinical input about cases they see?

28 March 26

I am a specialist emergency physician (FACEM) and own a GP clinic. I am exploring how I might work clinically within the practice, either in a specialist capacity or otherwise, and want to ens…

Can a FACEM bill unreferred attendances that take place inside a GP practice that the FACEM owns?

28 March 26

I am a specialist emergency physician (FACEM) and the owner of a GP clinic. I am considering working in the practice seeing non-referred patients and billing non-VR GP attendance items (e.g. 5…

Do the 12 month face-to-face rule exemptions apply to any child under 12 months, as well as any sexual health diagnosis and homeless person?

8 February 26

Do the 12 month face-to-face rule exemptions apply to ANY child under 12 months (any time from anywhere), as well as ANY sexual health diagnosis and ANY homeless person.

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If a call comes through at 0654 but by the time the doctor attended the patient, it was 0706, can the urgent after hours item still be claimed?

19 October 25

We are emergency physicians and claim the urgent after hours video item 92211. We recently had a scenario when a call came through at 0654 but by the time the doctor saw the patient it was 070…

Can FACEMs claim item 92211 when providing after hours telehealth support to State Government entities?

21 July 25

If a FACEM has a contract with a State Government entity to provide virtual support to say, a regional public hospital’s emergency department (ED), can we claim item 92211 for these consults? …

Can Medicare benefits be claimed when a FACEM does a virtual consult in an accredited private emergency department?

4 October 24

The emergency specialists (FACEMs) are all accredited and licensed and practicing in public emergency departments (ED) across the country. The hypothetical scenario given was that a patient pr…

Can a fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM) bill MBS codes outside of a private emergency department?

24 September 24

This FACEM was planning to open a walk-in emergency clinic similar to a GP urgent care centre. Importantly, this would not be an approved private emergency department (ED).
The following …

What constitutes a referral from the Emergency Department to an inpatient medical unit?

20 January 21

This is a common question. Who should the referrer be in these circumstances?
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