Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 45546

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

45546

45546 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Nov-1998
Description Updated:
01-Nov-1998
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Jul-2024

Group
T8 - Surgical Operations
Subgroup
13 - Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery
Subheading
4 - Other Grafts And Miscellaneous Procedures

NIPPLE OR AREOLA or both, intradermal colouration of, following breast reconstruction after mastectomy or for congenital absence of nipple

Multiple Operation Rule

Fee: $225.40 Benefit: 75% = $169.05 85% = $191.60

(See para TN.8.100 of explanatory notes to this Category)

Associated Notes

Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

TN.8.100

Nipple and/or Areola Reconstruction - (Items 45545 and 45546)

Item 45545 involves the taking of tissue from, for example, the other breast, the ear lobe and the inside of the upper thigh with or without local flap. 

Item 45546 covers the non-surgical creation of nipple or areola by intradermal colouration.

 

Related Items: 45545 45546

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