Billing Codes

17690

- Where a pre-anaesthesia consultation covered by an item in the range 17615-17625 is performed in-rooms if: (a) the service is provided to a patient prior to an admitted patient episode of care involving anaesthesia; and (b) the service is not provided to an admitted patient of a hospital; and (c) the service is not provided on the day of admission to hospital for the subsequent episode of care involving anaesthesia services; and (d) the service is of more than 15 minutes duration not being a service associated with a service to which items 2801 - 3000 apply.

MBS fee
$48.00
DVA fee
$46.80
Category
Category 3 — Therapeutic Procedures
Status
Unchanged
Additional DVA rates
RMFS Out-Hosp
$65.55
Full description

- Where a pre-anaesthesia consultation covered by an item in the range 17615-17625 is performed in-rooms if: (a) the service is provided to a patient prior to an admitted patient episode of care involving anaesthesia; and (b) the service is not provided to an admitted patient of a hospital; and (c) the service is not provided on the day of admission to hospital for the subsequent episode of care involving anaesthesia services; and (d) the service is of more than 15 minutes duration not being a service associated with a service to which items 2801 - 3000 apply.

Fee history

No recorded changes yet — history accumulates with each release.

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