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Fact Sheet for GPs - The Changes to Medicare Primary Care Items effective 1 May 2010
As a result of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review effective from 1 May 2010, the Department of Health and Ageing has produced a fact sheet "The Changes to Medicare Primary Care Items". This sets out the changes to Medicare attendance items for vocationally-recognised General Practitioners (GPs). which include changes to:
Item descriptors for general attendance items;
Attendance items out of consulting rooms;
After hours attendance items;
Prolonged attendance items;
Health assessment items;
Chronic disease management items; and
GP multidisciplinary case conference items.
Contact Details
NORTH WEST SLOPES DIVISION OF GENERAL PRACTICE
Suite 3, 180 Peel Street
Tamworth NSW 2340
Phone: 02 6766 1394
Fax: 02 6766 1372
Email: division@nwsdgp.org.au