Applications

1482 – New item numbers and rebates for mobile radiology services

Find out about the service or technology in this application and the medical condition it addresses. You can also view the application documents, the deadlines for providing consultation input and the outcome of the application when the MSAC process is complete.

  • Status Complete
  • Type New application
  • Pre-PASC consultation -
  • Pre-MSAC consultation -
  • Outcome Not supported

Application details

Reason for application

New MBS item

Service or technology in this application

The application proposes an additional fee to the current Medical Benefit Schedule items for x-ray and ultrasound imaging services, when these services are provided within Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF).

Type: Investigative

Medical condition this application addresses

  • Plain skeletal Xray: patients who have experienced a fall
  • Plain Chest Xray: patients with suspected pneumonia or heart failure
  • Plain abdominal Xray: patients with suspected acute abdomen or bowel obstruction
  • Abdominal ultrasound: acute abdomen, intra-abdominal pathology

Meetings to consider this application

  • PASC meeting: -
  • ESC meeting: -
  • MSAC meeting: 
    • 29 September 2017
    • 29 June 2018
    • 31 May 2024