Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 73356

Characterisation of germline gene variants, including copy number variation, in the SMAD4, BMPR1A, STK11 and GREM1 genes, requested by a specialist or consultant physician, for a patient:

(a) who has non-adenomatous polyposis; and

(b) who is assessed by the specialist or consultant physician as being at a risk of more than 10% of having any of the following, on the basis of clinical and family history criteria:

(i) juvenile polyposis syndrome;

(ii) Peutz-Jeghers syndrome;

(iii) hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome

Fee: $1,200.00 Benefit: 75% = $900.00 85% = $1,101.30

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