From 1 March 2020 the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) will be updated with the following changes:
- 2019-20 Budget measure to amend intensive care and emergency medicine MBS items
- Six new items for extracorporeal life support have been introduced and one obsolete item 14200 has been removed.
- The emergency department attendance items (501 – 536) have been restructured
- Stroboscopy - Minor amendment to stroboscopy item 41501 to also refer to malignant vocal fold lesions.
- Diagnostic Imaging