Medicare Benefits Schedule - Note AN.0.46

An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Older Person's health assessment must include:

1. a personal attendance by the general practitioner;
2. measurement of the patient's blood pressure, pulse rate and rhythm;
3. an assessment of the patient's medication;
4. an assessment of the patient's continence;
5. an assessment of the patient's immunisation status for influenza, tetanus and pneumococcus;
6. an assessment of the patient's physical functions, including the patient's activities of daily living and whether or not the patient has had a fall in the last 3months;
7. an assessment of the patient's psychological function, including the patient's cognition and mood;
8. an assessment of the patient's social function, including:
   1. the availability and adequacy of paid, and unpaid, help;
   2. whether the patient is responsible for caring for another person;
9. an eye examination

An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Older Person's health assessment must also include:

1. keeping a record of the health assessment; and
2. offering the patient a written report on the health assessment, with
3. recommendations on matters covered by the health assessment; and
4. offering the patient's carer (if any, and if the practitioner considers it appropriate and the patient agrees) a copy of the report or extracts of the report relevant to the carer.

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Professional attendance by a general practitioner at consulting rooms or in another place other than a hospital or residential aged care facility, for a health assessment of a patient who is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent-not more than once in a 9 month period

Fee: $233.65 Benefit: 100% = $233.65

(See para AN.0.43, AN.0.44, AN.0.45, AN.0.46 of explanatory notes to this Category)