Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 239

Attendance by a prescribed medical practitioner, as a member of a multidisciplinary case conference team, to participate in:
(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 less than 40 minutes, other than a service associated with a service to any of items 231, 232, 392, 393, 729, 731, 965, 967, 92029, 92030, 92060 or 92061 apply

Fee: $83.10 Benefit: 75% = $62.35 100% = $83.10

(See para AN.7.1 of explanatory notes to this Category)

Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: $249.30

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Last reviewed: 1 November 2023

A prescribed medical practitioner is a medical practitioner:

(a) who is not a general practitioner (see GN.4.13), specialist or consultant physician, and

(b) who:

a. is registered under section 3GA of the Act and is practising during the period, and in the location in respect of which the medical practitioner is registered, and insofar as the circumstances specified for paragraph 19AA(3)(b) of the Act apply; or

b. is covered by an exemption under subsection 19AB(3) of the Act; or

c. first became a medical practitioner before 1 November 1996.

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