Attendance by a medical practitioner who holds endorsement of… — on one or more patients at a…
Professional attendances · Group A7 — Acupuncture and non-specialist practitioner items
This item has no schedule fee of its own. The fee is calculated from the formula published in the schedule, so any single figure shown here would be misleading.
Time requirement as written: “less than 20 minutes”
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AN.0.29 Acupuncture (Item 193, 195, 197 and 199)
Items 193, 195, 197 and 199 cover not only the performance of the acupuncture but include any consultation on the same occasion and any other attendance on the same day for the condition for which acupuncture was given.
For the purpose of payment of Medicare benefits "acupuncture" is interpreted as including treatment by means other than the use of acupuncture needles where the same effect is achieved without puncture, eg by application of ultrasound, laser beams, pressure or moxibustion, etc.
For more information on the content-based item structure used in this Group, see para AN.0.9 of explanatory notes to this Category.
| Item number | 195 |
|---|---|
| Category | 1 — Professional attendances |
| Group | A7 — Acupuncture and non-specialist practitioner items |
| Subheading | — |
| Item type | S |
| Fee type | Derived |
| In schedule since | 1 Nov 1998 |
| Fee current from | — |
| GP scope | Yes · tier 3 |
| Safety net | 300% of the Derived fee for this item, or $500, whichever is the lesser amount |