Billing Codes

16015

Administration of Strontium 89 for the relief of bone pain due to skeletal metastases (as indicated by a positive bone scan), if systemic antineoplastic therapy is unavailable or has failed to control the patient’s disease and either: a) the disease is poorly controlled by conventional radiotherapy; or b) conventional radiotherapy is inappropriate, due to the wide distribution of sites of bone pain.

MBS fee
$4890.05
DVA fee
$4766.15
Category
Category 3 — Therapeutic Procedures
Status
Unchanged
Additional DVA rates
RMFS In-Hosp
$5719.85
RMFS Out-Hosp
$6672.65
Full description

Administration of Strontium 89 for the relief of bone pain due to skeletal metastases (as indicated by a positive bone scan), if systemic antineoplastic therapy is unavailable or has failed to control the patient’s disease and either: a) the disease is poorly controlled by conventional radiotherapy; or b) conventional radiotherapy is inappropriate, due to the wide distribution of sites of bone pain.

Fee history

No recorded changes yet — history accumulates with each release.

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