March 2020 MBS Update

March 2020 MBS Update

From 1 March 2020 the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) will be updated with the following changes:

  1. 2019-20 Budget measure to amend intensive care and emergency medicine MBS items
  2. Six new items for extracorporeal life support have been introduced and one obsolete item 14200 has been removed.
  3. The emergency department attendance items (501 – 536) have been restructured
  4. Stroboscopy - Minor amendment to stroboscopy item 41501 to also refer to malignant vocal fold lesions.
  5. Diagnostic Imaging




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