Billing Codes

82140

Postnatal professional attendance by a participating midwife on a patient, not less than 4 weeks but not more than 8 weeks after birth of a baby, lasting at least 60 minutes, including all of the following: (a) a comprehensive examination of the patient and baby to ensure normal postnatal recovery; (b) a labour and birth debrief; (c) a mental health assessment or where the patient declines a mental health assessment, the participating midwife records the patient’s decision in the clinical notes; (d) referral of the patient to a primary carer for the ongoing care of the patient and baby or where the patient declines a referral to a primary carer, the participating midwife records the patient’s decision in the clinical notes Payable only once per pregnancy

MBS fee
$63.90
DVA fee
$62.30
Category
Category 8 — Miscellaneous
Status
Unchanged
Full description

Postnatal professional attendance by a participating midwife on a patient, not less than 4 weeks but not more than 8 weeks after birth of a baby, lasting at least 60 minutes, including all of the following: (a) a comprehensive examination of the patient and baby to ensure normal postnatal recovery; (b) a labour and birth debrief; (c) a mental health assessment or where the patient declines a mental health assessment, the participating midwife records the patient’s decision in the clinical notes; (d) referral of the patient to a primary carer for the ongoing care of the patient and baby or where the patient declines a referral to a primary carer, the participating midwife records the patient’s decision in the clinical notes Payable only once per pregnancy

Fee history

No recorded changes yet — history accumulates with each release.

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