MBS administrative changes to align GP telehealth and phone fees
GPs are advised that from 1 March 2022 there have been a number of changes to the MBS. These changes implement the Government’s response to recommendations form the MBS Review Taskforce (the Taskforce) regarding a fee alignment for GP and Other Medical Practitioner (OMP) telehealth and telephone services.
There are some amendments to a number of general practice remote service fees that were originally created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These services are being continued following the Government’s commitment to the need for these services and will have an administrative amendment to change the benefit calculation from 85% to 100% of the fee.
This is an administrative change that reduces the fees of those items, so the benefit paid for the service remains unchanged. These changes include all GP and medical practitioner (excluding specialist and consultant physician) items in Group A40, A41, A42, A43 and A45.
Further information can be seen here.
