Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 40806

Treatment of medically refractory essential tremor with magnetic resonance imaging-guided focused ultrasound, performed by a neurosurgeon in association with the services described in items 40804 and 40805, including:

(a) computer assisted anatomical localisation; and

(b) frame placement; and

(c) target verification using anatomical and physiological techniques; and

(d) delivery of treatment with lesion production in the basal ganglia, brain stem, thalamus or deep white matter tracts

Applicable once per patient per lifetime (H) 

Multiple Operation Rule

(Anaes.)

Fee: $3,295.85 Benefit: 75% = $2,471.90

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