Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 69303

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Category 6 - PATHOLOGY SERVICES

69303

69303 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Nov-1998
Description Updated:
01-Nov-2005
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Jan-2013

Group
P3 - Microbiology

Culture and (if performed) microscopy to detect pathogenic micro-organisms from nasal swabs, throat swabs, eye swabs and ear swabs (excluding swabs taken for epidemiological surveillance), including (if performed):

(a)    pathogen identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing; or

(b)    a service described in item 69300;

specimens from 1 or more sites

Fee: $22.00 Benefit: 75% = $16.50 85% = $18.70


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