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Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

Heart health assessment provided by general practitioners and medical practitioners

Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES

699

699 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Apr-2019
Description Updated:
01-Jul-2021
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
A14 - Health Assessments
Subheading
1 - Health Assessments

Professional attendance on a patient who is 30 years of age or over for a heart health assessment by a general practitioner at consulting rooms lasting at least 20 minutes and including:

  1. collection of relevant information, including taking a patient history; and

  2. a basic physical examination, which must include recording blood pressure and cholesterol; and

  3. initiating interventions and referrals as indicated; and

  4. implementing a management plan; and

  5. providing the patient with preventative health care advice and information.

 

 

 



Fee: $80.10 Benefit: 100% = $80.10

(See para AN.14.2 of explanatory notes to this Category)


Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $240.30

Category 2 - DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES AND INVESTIGATIONS

11607

11607 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Nov-2021
Description Updated:
01-Jul-2022
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
D1 - Miscellaneous Diagnostic Procedures And Investigations
Subgroup
5 - Vascular

Continuous ambulatory blood pressure recording for 24 hours or more for a patient if:

(a) the patient has a clinic blood pressure measurement (using a sphygmomanometer or a validated oscillometric blood pressure monitoring device) of either or both of the following measurements:

(i) systolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 mmHg and less than or equal to 180 mmHg;

(ii) diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 90 mmHg and less than or equal to 110 mmHg; and

(b) the patient has not commenced anti‑hypertensive therapy; and

(c) the recording includes the patient’s resting blood pressure; and

(d) the recording is conducted using microprocessor‑based analysis equipment; and

(e) the recording is interpreted by a medical practitioner and a report is prepared by the same medical practitioner; and

(f) a treatment plan is provided for the patient; and

(g) the service:

(i) is not provided in association with ambulatory electrocardiogram recording, and

(ii) is not associated with a service to which any of the following items apply:

(A) 177;

(B) 224 to 228;

(C) 229 to 244;

(D) 699;

(E) 701 to 707;

(F) 715;

(G) 721 to 732;

(H) 735 to 758.

Applicable only once in any 12 month period

 



Fee: $113.35 Benefit: 75% = $85.05 85% = $96.35

(See para DN.1.35 of explanatory notes to this Category)

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