Billing Codes

115

Professional attendance at consulting rooms or in hospital on a day by a medical practitioner (the attending practitioner) who is a specialist or consultant physician in the practice of the attending practitioner’s specialty after referral of the patient to the attending practitioner by a referring practitioner—an attendance after the initial attendance in a single course of treatment, if: (a) the attending practitioner performs a scheduled operation on the patient on the same day; and (b) the operation is a service to which an item in Group T8 applies; and (c) the amount specified in the item in Group T8 as the fee for a service to which that item applies is $359.05 or more; and (d) the attendance is unrelated to the scheduled operation; and (e) it is considered a clinical risk to defer the attendance to a later day For any particular patient, once only on the same day

MBS fee
$52.25
DVA fee
$50.95
Category
Category 1 — Professional Attendances
Status
Unchanged
Additional DVA rates
RMFS In-Hosp
$70.60
RMFS Out-Hosp
$68.80
Full description

Professional attendance at consulting rooms or in hospital on a day by a medical practitioner (the attending practitioner) who is a specialist or consultant physician in the practice of the attending practitioner’s specialty after referral of the patient to the attending practitioner by a referring practitioner—an attendance after the initial attendance in a single course of treatment, if: (a) the attending practitioner performs a scheduled operation on the patient on the same day; and (b) the operation is a service to which an item in Group T8 applies; and (c) the amount specified in the item in Group T8 as the fee for a service to which that item applies is $359.05 or more; and (d) the attendance is unrelated to the scheduled operation; and (e) it is considered a clinical risk to defer the attendance to a later day For any particular patient, once only on the same day

Fee history

No recorded changes yet — history accumulates with each release.

Data sourced from Australian Government publications · Not an official government service