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Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

5043

5043 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Jan-2005
Description Updated:
01-Jan-2013
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

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

Professional attendance by a general practitioner (other than attendance at consulting rooms, a hospital or a residential aged care facility or a service to which another item in the table applies), lasting at least 20 minutes and including any of the following that are clinically relevant:

(a) taking a detailed 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 on one occasion-each patient



The fee for item 5040, plus $28.60 divided by the number of patients seen, up to a maximum of six patients. For seven or more patients - the fee for item 5040 plus $2.25 per patient.
Ready Reckoner

(See para AN.0.9, AN.0.11, 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