Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 14227

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

14227

14227 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-May-2006
Description Updated:
01-May-2006
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Jul-2024

Group
T1 - Miscellaneous Therapeutic Procedures
Subgroup
13 - Other Therapeutic Procedures

IMPLANTED INFUSION PUMP, REFILLING of reservoir, with baclofen, for infusion to the subarachnoid or epidural space, with or without re-programming of a programmable pump, for the management of severe chronic spasticity

Fee: $111.60 Benefit: 75% = $83.70 85% = $94.90

(See para TN.1.18 of explanatory notes to this Category)

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

TN.1.18

Implantable Drug Delivery System for the Treatment of Severe Chronic Spasticity - (Items 14227 to 14237)

Baclofen is provided under Section 100 of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the following indications: Severe chronic spasticity, where oral agents have failed or have caused unacceptable side effects, in patients with chronic spasticity:

(a) of cerebral origin; or

(b) due to multiple sclerosis; or

(c) due to spinal cord injury; or

(d) due to spinal cord disease. 

Items 14227, 14234 and 14237 should be used in accordance with these restrictions.

 

Related Items: 14227 14234 14237

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