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Category 2 - DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES AND INVESTIGATIONS
11341 - Additional Information
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 3 or 4 clinically recognised tests;
other than a service associated with a service to which item 11015, 11021, 11024, 11027, 11205 or 11300 applies
Fee: $410.75 Benefit: 75% = $308.10 85% = $349.15
(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).
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