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Case Conferences
MULTIDISCIPLINARY CASE CONFERENCE - MEDICAL PRACTITIONER (OTHER THAN A SPECIALIST OR CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN)
These services are for patients who:
(a) have at least one medical condition that:
i. has been (or is likely to be) present for at least six months; or
ii. is terminal; and
(b) require ongoing care from a multidisciplinary case conference team which includes:
i. a medical practitioner; and
ii. at least two other members, each of whom provides a different kind of care or service to the patient and is not a family carer of the patient, and one of whom may be another medical practitioner.
For the purposes of items 735-758, a multidisciplinary case conference is a process by which a multidisciplinary case conference team:
(a) discusses a patient’s history; and
(b) identifies the patient’s multidisciplinary care needs; and
(c) identifies outcomes to be achieved by members of the case conference team giving care and service to the patient; and
(d) identifies tasks that need to be undertaken to achieve these outcomes, and allocates those tasks to members of the case conference team; and
(e) assesses whether previously identified outcomes (if any) have been achieved.
Participation in a multidisciplinary case conference must be at the request of the person who organises and coordinates the conference.
Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES
739 - Additional Information
Attendance by a general practitioner, as a member of a multidisciplinary case conference team, to organise and coordinate:
(a) a community case conference; or
(b) a multidisciplinary case conference in a residential aged care facility; or
(c) a multidisciplinary discharge case conference;
if the conference lasts for at least 20 minutes, but for less than 40 minutes (other than a service associated with a service to which items 721 to 732 apply)
Fee: $125.85 Benefit: 75% = $94.40 100% = $125.85
(See para AN.0.49 of explanatory notes to this Category)
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