Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 11340

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Category 2 - DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES AND INVESTIGATIONS

11340

11340 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Mar-2023
Description Updated:
01-Mar-2023
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
D1 - Miscellaneous Diagnostic Procedures And Investigations
Subgroup
3 - Otolaryngology

Investigation of the vestibular function to assist in the diagnosis, treatment or management of a vestibular or related disorder, performed by or on behalf of a medical practitioner:

(a) to assess one or more of the following:

(i) the organs of the peripheral vestibular system (utricle, saccule, lateral, superior and posterior semicircular canals, and vestibular nerve);

(ii) muscular or eye movement responses elicited by vestibular stimulation;

(iii) static signs of vestibular dysfunction;

(iv) the central ocular‑motor function; and

(b) using up to 2 clinically recognised tests;

other than a service associated with a service to which item 11015, 11021, 11024, 11027, 11205 or 11300 applies

Fee: $204.90 Benefit: 75% = $153.70 85% = $174.20

(See para DN.1.36 of explanatory notes to this Category)


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Category 2 - DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES AND INVESTIGATIONS

DN.1.36

Audiology Services - (Items 11340, 11341 and 11343)

All vestibular assessment tests to be performed as indicated by standard clinical practice and must provide a quantifiable measure. 

A single test is defined as one of the following: 

• Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) (up to all planes tested and +/- Suppression HIT); 

• Ocular Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (O VEMP) +/- threshold testing (air and/or bone conduction and/or skull-tap); 

• Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (C VEMP)  +/- threshold testing (air and/or bone conduction and/or skull-tap); 

• Videonystagmography (VNG) or Electronystagmography (ENG) to measure ocular-motor responses including spontaneous/gaze evoked nystagmus, optokinetic, saccade or smooth pursuit function; 

• Videonystagmography (VNG) or Electronystagmography(ENG) to measure eye movement in response to positional testing +/- Dix-Hallpike +/- mechanical positioning; 

• Videonystagmography (VNG) or Electronystagmography (ENG) to measure eye movement responses to stimuli such as pressure and sound (Tullio and/or Fistula testing), and/or hyperventilation and/or head shaking; 

• Calorics, and/or Caloric Test of Labyrinth; 

• Rotational testing including rotational chair; 

• Subjective visual vertical/horizontal; 

• Static posturography or Computerised Dynamic Posturography (CDP).

Related Items: 11340 11341 11343


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