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Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

5028

5028 - Additional Information

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

Group
A22 - General Practitioner After-Hours Attendances To Which No Other Item Applies
Subheading
2 - Level B

Professional attendance by a general practitioner (other than a service to which another item in this Schedule applies), on care recipients in a residential aged care facility, lasting at least 6 minutes and less than 20 minutes and including any of the following that are clinically relevant:
(a) taking a patient history;
(b) performing a clinical examination;
(c) arranging any necessary investigation;
(d) implementing a management plan;
(e) providing appropriate preventive health care;
for one or more health-related issues, with appropriate documentation—an attendance on one or more patients at one residential aged care facility on one occasion—each patient



The fee for item 5020, plus $51.45 divided by the number of patients seen, up to a maximum of six patients. For seven or more patients - the fee for item 5020 plus $3.65 per patient.
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(See para AN.0.9, AN.0.11, AN.0.15, AN.0.19, AN.0.74, MN.1.3, MN.1.4, MN.1.5, MN.1.6, MN.1.7, MN.1.8 of explanatory notes to this Category)


Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: 300% of the Derived fee for this item, or $500, whichever is the lesser amount

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  • Assist - Addition/Deletion of (Assist.)
  • Amend - Amended Description
  • Anaes - Anaesthetic Values Amended
  • Emsn - EMSN Change
  • Fee - Fee Amended
  • Renum - Item Number Change (renumbered)
  • New - New Item
  • NewMin - New Item (previous Ministerial Determination)
  • Qfe - QFE Change