Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 73406

Testing of a pregnant patient, for the purpose of determining whether monogenic variants are present in the fetus, if:

(a) the service is requested by a consultant physician practising as:

(i) a clinical geneticist; or

(ii) a specialist nephrologist; and

(b) the patient or the patient’s reproductive partner (or both) are known to be affected by, or are carriers of, a known pathogenic variant that causes heritable kidney disease; and

(c) the fetus is at risk, of at least 25%, of inheriting a monogenic variant known to cause kidney disease

Fee: $400.00 Benefit: 75% = $300.00 85% = $340.00

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