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Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

10921

10921 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Dec-1991
Description Updated:
01-Jan-2015
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
A10 - Optometrical Services
Subgroup
1 - General


CONTACT LENSES FOR SPECIFIED CLASSES OF PATIENTS - BULK ITEMS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT CONSULTATIONS

All professional attendances after the first, being those attendances regarded as a single service, in a single course of attention involving the prescription and fitting of contact lenses, being a course of attention for which the first attendance is a service to which:

(a)  item 10905, 10907, 10910, 10911, 10912, 10913, 10914, 10915 or 10916 applies; or

(b) old item 10900 applied

Payable once in a period of 36 months for

-  patients with myopia of 5.0 dioptres or greater (spherical equivalent) in one eye



Fee: $182.50 Benefit: 85% = $155.15

(See para AN.0.2 of explanatory notes to this Category)


Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $500.00

Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

10930

10930 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Nov-1997
Description Updated:
01-Nov-1997
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
A10 - Optometrical Services
Subgroup
1 - General

All professional attendances regarded as a single service in a single course of attention involving the prescription and fitting of contact lenses where the patient meets the requirements of an item in the range 10921-10929 and requires a change in contact lens material or basic lens parameters, other than a simple power change, because of a structural or functional change in the eye or an allergic response within 36 months of the fitting of a contact lens covered by item 10921 to 10929



Fee: $182.50 Benefit: 85% = $155.15


Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $500.00

Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

10942

10942 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-May-2005
Description Updated:
01-Nov-2005
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
A10 - Optometrical Services
Subgroup
1 - General

LOW VISION ASSESSMENT Testing of residual vision to provide optimum visual performance for a patient who has best corrected visual acuity of 6/15 or N.12 or worse in the better eye or a horizontal visual field of less than 120 degrees and within 10 degrees above and below the horizontal midline, involving 1 or more of the following: (a) spectacle correction; (b) determination of contrast sensitivity; (c) determination of glare sensitivity; (d) prescription of magnification aids; not being a service associated with a service to which item 10916, 10921, 10922, 10923, 10924, 10925, 10926, 10927, 10928, 10929 or 10930 appliesĀ 

Not payable more than twice per patient in a 12 month period.



Fee: $36.80 Benefit: 85% = $31.30

(See para AN.10.1 of explanatory notes to this Category)


Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $110.40

Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

10943

10943 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Nov-2005
Description Updated:
01-Nov-2005
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
A10 - Optometrical Services
Subgroup
1 - General

CHILDREN'S VISION ASSESSMENT Additional testing to confirm diagnosis of, or establish a treatment regime for, a significant binocular or accommodative dysfunction, in a patient aged 3 to 14 years, including assessment of 1 or more of the following: (a) accommodation; (b) ocular motility; (c) vergences; (d) fusional reserves; (e) cycloplegic refraction; not being a service to which item 10916, 10921, 10922, 10923, 10924, 10925, 10926, 10927, 10928, 10929 or 10930 appliesĀ 

Not to be used for the assessment of learning difficulties or learning disabilities. Not payable more than once per patient in a 12 month period.



Fee: $36.80 Benefit: 85% = $31.30

(See para AN.10.1 of explanatory notes to this Category)


Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $110.40

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