Billing Codes

UK030

Spacer-S

Current benefit
$1309.00
ARTG number
Last updated
March 2023
Category
06 - Specialist Orthopaedic
06.02 - UPPER LIMB
Status
Unchanged
Size / specification

41 mm Head- 99 mm Stem 46 mm Head - 125 mm Stem

Description

A device temporarily placed into the shoulder joint space to prevent bone on bone contact and contraction of soft tissue during the treatment of an infected joint. The device locally releases gentamicin to help the treatment of the infection. The Spacer-S comes in 2 sizes

Device identification (UDI)
Cement, orthopaedic, bone spacer · Class III

2 UDI-DI records matched via ARTG 387272 — sourced from the TGA Australian UDI Database (AusUDID). Click a number to look it up on AusUDID's own search.

TGA safety record
Not yet checked against TGA's safety database
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Benefit history

No recorded changes yet — history accumulates with each release.

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