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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

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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 manifest hyperopia 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

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• Next - Item 10923

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 astigmatism of 3.0 dioptres or greater 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

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• Next - Item 10924

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 irregular astigmatism in either eye, being a condition the existence of which has been confirmed by keratometric observation, if the maximum visual acuity obtainable with spectacle correction is worse than 0.3 logMAR (6/12) and if that corrected acuity would be improved by an additional 0.1 logMAR by the use of a contact lens

Fee: $230.30 Benefit: 85% = $195.80

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

Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $500.00

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• Next - Item 10925

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 anisometropia of 3.0 dioptres or greater (difference between spherical equivalents)

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

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• Next - Item 10926

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 corrected visual acuity of 0.7 logMAR (6/30) or worse in both eyes, being patients for whom a contact     lens is prescribed as part of a telescopic system

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

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• Next - Item 10927

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 for whom a wholly or segmentally opaque contact lens is prescribed for the alleviation of dazzle,                  distortion or diplopia caused by:                                            

    i.    pathological mydriasis; or

    ii.    aniridia; or

    iii.    coloboma of the iris; or

    iv.    pupillary malformation or distortion; or

    v.    significant ocular deformity or corneal opacity

-whether congenital, traumatic or surgical in origin

Fee: $230.30 Benefit: 85% = $195.80

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

Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $500.00

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• Next - Item 10928

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 who, because of physical deformity, are unable to wear spectacles

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

• Previous - Item 10927
• Next - Item 10929

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 who have a medical or optical condition (other than myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, anisometropia or a condition to which item 10926, 10927 or 10928 applies) requiring the use of a contact lens for correction, if the condition is specified on the patient's account

Note: Benefits may not be claimed under Item 10929 where the patient wants the contact lenses for appearance, sporting, work or psychological reasons - see paragraph O6 of explanatory notes to this category.

Fee: $230.30 Benefit: 85% = $195.80

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

Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $500.00

• Previous - Item 10928
• Next - Item 10930

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

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• Next - Item 10931