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Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES
415 - Additional Information
LEVEL B
Professional attendance by a public health physician in the practice of his or her specialty of public health medicine other than at consulting rooms, lasting less than 20 minutes, including any of the following that are clinically relevant:
a) taking a patient history;
b) performing a clinical examination;
c) arranging any necessary investigation;
d) implementing a management plan;
e) providing appropriate preventive health care;
in relation to 1 or more health-related issues, with appropriate documentation.
The fee for item 411, plus $29.50 divided by the number of patients seen, up to a maximum of six patients. For seven or more patients - the fee for item 411 plus $2.35 per patient.
Ready Reckoner
(See para AN.0.50 of explanatory notes to this Category)
Extended Medicare Safety Net Cap: 300% of the Derived fee for this item, or $500, whichever is the lesser amount
Associated Notes
Category 1 - PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCES
AN.0.50
Public Health Medicine - (Items 410 to 417)
Attendances by public health physicians will attract Medicare benefits under the new items only where the attendance relates to one or more of the following: -
(i) management of a patient's vaccination requirements for accepted immunisation programs; or
(ii) prevention or management of sexually transmitted disease; or
(iii) prevention or management of disease due to environmental hazards or poisons; or
(iv) prevention or management of exotic diseases; or
(v) prevention or management of infection during outbreaks of infectious disease.
For more information on the content-based item structure used in this Group, see A.5 in the explanatory notes.
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- Assist - Addition/Deletion of (Assist.)
- Amend - Amended Description
- Anaes - Anaesthetic Values Amended
- Emsn - EMSN Change
- Fee - Fee Amended
- Renum - Item Number Change (renumbered)
- New - New Item
- NewMin - New Item (previous Ministerial Determination)
- Qfe - QFE Change