When bulk billing, is the patient’s agreement to assign their Medicare benefit required for all items or just the consultation items?

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The questioner added that everything they had read talks about telehealth items only. Their understanding was that the assignment of benefit is only required for consultation items but not for other items. They gave the example of whether consent was required to bulk bill a 11714 ECG.

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