Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) review taskforce - reports from clinical committees and working groups - June 2017

Closed: 23 June 2017

The MBS Review Taskforce released six reports for public consultation – recommendations in the reports may affect you, your practice and your patients.

The reports released for public consultation included:

• Dermatology, Allergy & Immunology
• Diagnostic Imaging – knee imaging
• Diagnostic Imaging - pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis
• Renal Medicine
• Spinal Surgery
• Urgent after-hours primary care services funded by the MBS

To inform the RACGP’s Submission to the MBS Review Taskforce on each of these reports, we called for member feedback on the recommendations, focussing on:

Diagnostic Imaging – knee imaging

• Recommendations 2

Urgent after-hours primary care services funded by the MBS

• Recommendations 2

Dermatology, Allergy and Immunology

• Recommendations 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.8, 5.10

Background

In April 2015, the Department of Health announced the formation of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce as part of the Government’s Healthier Medicare initiative. The 2017-18 Federal Budget allocated funding for the MBS Review Taskforce to continue for another three years until 2020.