Medicare Benefits Schedule - Note TN.8.250

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

TN.8.250

Multi-disciplinary team for cryoablation for renal cell carcinoma

For the purpose of item 36530, a multi-disciplinary team typically includes a urologist, interventional radiologist and oncologist. Patients eligible for Medicare-funded cryoablation need to be considered by the multi-disciplinary team as not suitable for partial nephrectomy and typically have one or more of the following characteristics:

•              Elderly and/or frailty;

•              High surgical risk;

•              Poor renal function;

•              Solitary kidney;

•              Bilateral kidney tumours.

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