Applications

1754 – Surgical Procedures for Gender Affirmation in Adults with Gender Incongruence

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 Assessment
  • Type New application
  • Pre-PASC consultation Closed
  • Pre-MSAC consultation Closed
  • Outcome Pending

Application details

Applicant

Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons Inc

Reason for application

New MBS item.

Service or technology in this application

This application requests the creation of a series of new MBS items for gender affirming surgeries. Gender affirming surgeries refer to a constellation of procedures intended to align a person’s body with their gender identity.

Type: Therapeutic technology

Medical condition this application addresses

Gender incongruence is characterised by a marked and persistent difference between an individual´s experienced gender and the assigned sex, which often leads to a desire to ‘transition’, in order to live and be accepted as a person of the experienced gender.

Consultation survey and deadlines

The following consultation deadlines apply:

  • Pre-PASC consultation deadline: Closed 3 November 2023
  • Pre-MSAC consultation deadline: Closed Friday 14 February 2025 11:59 pm AEDT

For other ways to provide input, see how to have your say.

We welcome input from everyone. We are especially keen to hear from those with lived experience of the health condition, service or technology the applications are addressing.

Find out more about consultation.

Meetings to consider this application

  • PASC meeting: 7–8 December 2023
  • ESC meeting: 13–14 February 2025
  • MSAC meeting: 3–4 April 2025

Outcome details

Application 1754 will be considered in two-stages. In the first stage, ESC and MSAC will assess the clinical evidence in the applicant-developed assessment report. This will enable MSAC to advise on the appropriate approach for the economic evaluation, which is the second stage.

The MSAC meeting on 3-4 April 2025 will consider the first stage only, consideration of the second stage will occur at a later MSAC meeting. 

An outcome will only be available after both the first and second stages of the assessment report have been considered by MSAC.

For more information about two-stage assessment reports see Develop an applicant-developed assessment report (ADAR) | Medical Services Advisory Committee

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