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Education guides
The following guides help you understand your obligations when billing and claiming MBS items:
- Aftercare or post-operative treatment
- Better Access to mental health care for eligible practitioners and allied health professionals
- Billing abandoned or discontinued surgery
- Billing assisted reproductive technology services
- Billing multiple MBS items
- Billing skin lesion treatment and biopsy items under Medicare
- Chronic disease individual allied health services Medicare items 10950-10970
- Chronic disease GP Management Plans and Team Care Arrangements
- Claiming bulk bill incentive items
- Diagnostic audiology items
- Eating disorder treatment and management plans
- Health assessments and your record keeping responsibilities
- Medicare billing for immunisations
- Medicare items for Better Start for Children with Disability initiative
- Medicare services for eligible midwives
- Medicare reason codes and reducing claim rejections
- Medicare ultrasound services
- Practice nurse items
- Relative Value Guide for anaesthesia billing
Infographics
Professional services
Anaesthesia
Learn about:
Cardiac
Learn about:
- Claiming Ambulatory Electrocardiogram (AECG) MBS Items, or read the transcript
- Claiming Ambulatory Electrocardiogram (AECG) MBS Items 11716, or read the transcript
- Claiming Ambulatory Electrocardiogram (AECG) MBS Items 11717, or read the transcript
- Claiming Ambulatory Electrocardiogram (AECG) MBS Items 11723, or read the transcript
Children with Autism or disabilities
Learn about:
- Primary care items – Better Start for Children with a Disability MBS Items Flow Chart, or read the transcript
- Primary care items – Helping Children with Autism (HCWA) MBS items Flow Chart, or read the transcript
Nurse practitioners, practice nurses and midwives
Learn about:
- Eligible midwives MBS items, or read the transcript
- Nurse practitioner MBS items, or read the transcript
- Practice nurse MBS items, or read the transcript
Skin Lesions
Learn about:
- Determining Lesion Size for MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Malignant Melanoma Skin Lesions MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Malignant Skin Lesion MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Mohs Micrographic Surgery MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Non-Malignant Skin Lesions MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Removal of Tumour, Cysts, Ulcer or Scar MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Skin Flaps MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
- Skin Lesion Excision and Flap Repair MBS Item Restrictions Guide, or read the transcript
- Type of Skin Defects, or read the transcript
- Wound Repair MBS Item Selection Guide, or read the transcript
Chronic Disease Management
Team Care Arrangements
Learn about:
Allied Health Initiative
Learn about:
Mental Health
Mental health Resources
Learn about:
- Primary care items – Better Access Mental Health Treatment Referred Allied Health Services, or read the transcript
Eating disorders
Learn about:
- Primary care items – Eating Disorder Treatment and Management plan, or read the transcript
- Primary care items – Eligibility for treatment services under an eating disorder plan, or read the transcript
eLearning modules
Medicare for Health Professionals
- Aftercare or Post-Operative Treatment
- Attendance Basics
- Introduction to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS)
- Medicare billing and claiming – basics
- Provider and Prescriber number eligibility
- Referral and Requests
- The Australian Health Care System
- The Medicare Program
Professional services
Anaesthesia
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
Bulk Bill Incentive
Cardiac
Children with Autism or disabilities
Nurse practitioners, practice nurses and midwives
- Medicare items for eligible midwives
- Medicare items for eligible nurse practitioners
- Medicare items for eligible practice nurses
Skin lesions
- Consultation items and the treatment of skin lesions
- Skin lesion excision items and local skin flap repair
- Treatment of skin lesions - Case studies and knowledge checks
- Treatment of skin lesions - other than excision
Chronic Disease Management
GP management plans
- GP Management Plans
- GP Management Plan (GPMP) case study – Asthma
- GP Management Plan (GPMP) case study - Asthma (child)
- GP Management Plan (GPMP) case study - Diabetes mellitus
- GP Management Plan (GPMP) case study – Osteoarthritis
- GP Management Plan (GPMP) case study – Psoriasis
- GP Management Plan (GPMP) case study – Tendonitis
Team care arrangements
- Targeted MBS Primary Care Items
- Team Care Arrangements
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study - Breast Cancer
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study - Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study - Diabetes Mellitus
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study - Heart Failure
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study – Osteoarthritis
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study - Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis and Parkinson's disease
- Team Care Arrangements (TCA) case study - Pelvic Leiomyosarcoma
Allied health initiative
- Allied Health Initiative
- Allied Health Initiative case study – Diabetes
- Allied Health Initiative case study - Osteoarthritis, hypertension and early dementia
- Targeted MBS Primary Care Items
Multidisciplinary Case Conferences
Mental Health
Mental Health Resources
- Access to Mental Health Services – allied mental health professionals
- Access to Mental Health Services – eligible medical practitioners
Eating Disorders
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