Items for Planning and Management of a Pregnancy (Item 16590 and 16591)

Item 16590 is intended to provide for the planning and management of pregnancy that has progressed beyond 28 weeks, where the medical practitioner is intending to undertake the birth for a privately admitted patient. 

Item 16591 is for the planning and management of a pregnancy that has progressed beyond 28 weeks and the medical practitioner is providing shared antenatal care and is not intending to undertake the birth. 

Items 16590 and 16591 are to include the provision of a mental health assessment of the patient.  Both items are subject to Extended Medicare Safety Net caps and should only be claimed by a patient once per pregnancy.