The January 2009 Medicare Benefits Schedule is now available

Below is a summary of changes that have occured to the MBS since November 2008.

Page last updated: 10 December 2008

The PDF and RTF versions are now available to view or download from the 1 January 2009 MBS downloads page.



AMENDMENTS TO DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES TABLE

1 December 2008

PET service items 61541, 61544, 61553, 61556, 61565 and 61568, previously restricted to limited PET facilities, were approved to be listed on the MBS by Minister Roxon, and were available from 1 December 2008. Consultations with Nuclear Medicine Professionals resulted in the amendment of the item descriptors to better reflect current best practice.

1 January 2009

To date, the above PET items (as amended 1 December 2008) have been print suppressed and thus not available to view in the MBS. As these PET items can be accessed by all properly accredited PET facilities, by appropriately credentialed practitioners, they will be viewable on MBS online from 1 January 2009.

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AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES TABLE

1 January 2009

Management of bulk-billed services item 10992 - the description of this item was amended to include the Transitional Hours item numbers 603 and 696 which were introduced on 1 November 2008.


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