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Medicare audit of EPC item numbers: Back to Basics
29/10/06  Therese Greenlees When the new chronic disease management (CDM) item numbers were released in July 2005, the Department of Health announce more...
Using exercise physiology in team care arrangements
19/02/06  Tim Boyd by Tim Boyd “We know of no single intervention with greater promise than physical exercise to reduce the risk of vir more...
Patients can now access exercise physiologists
19/02/06   by Therese Greenlees and Kerry Muscat January heralded yet another item number (10953) to improve patient access to a more...
GP Management Plans and Team Care Arrangements: Your questions answered
20/10/05  Therese Greenlees So you’ve read the article about the new Chronic Disease Management (CDM) item numbers in the last issue of GPSpeak and more...
Care plans: When everything old is new again
23/08/05  Therese Greenlees Just when you thought you had a handle on care plans, the HIC have been tinkering with item numbers again. As of July 1, more...
The business end of EPC and HMR
16/06/05  Sue Nelson The primary aim of the EPC and incentive item numbers is optimum management and care of people with chronic and complex more...
Asthma: Easy as 1, 2, 3+ Part Two
20/04/05  Therese Greenlees Last month’s article on the Asthma 3+ action plan outlined the steps required to claim the $100 service incentive paymen more...
Adolescent patients – It’s as easy as EPC!
19/02/05  Anita Mansfield I know I’ve heard it all before: adolescent patients are too time consuming, too complex, bring poor remuneration, fail more...
Practically a care plan
14/12/04  Therese Greenlees In the last issue of GPSpeak we revisited care plans and introduced the new allied health item numbers, which allow pati more...
Care plans revisited
20/10/04  Therese Greenlees Care plans and the new allied health item numbers With the release of the new allied health and dental care service ite more...
Practice nurses and the EPC MBS items for multidisciplinary care planning
20/08/04   Martin Mullane, director, EPC Implementation, DoHA, has supplied the information regarding the current Medicare Benefits more...
Evans Head spruiks benefits of practice nurses and care plans
30/06/04  Katherine Breen Kurucsev The Evans Head Medical Centre team (l-r): Dr Paul Watterston, receptionists Heather Visco, Marion Morgan and Lorraine Al more...
Item 710: Adult Health Assessment
30/06/04  Therese Greenlees The May 2004 Supplement of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (page 22) includes an adult health assessment for Aboriginal a more...
Item 0MT99 - New item number for DVA service incentive payments
30/06/04  Therese Greenlees Since February 1, the HIC has automatically included a Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) service incentive payment o more...
HCV EPC project report
20/06/03  Gareth Daniels The hepatitis C EPC project has been running since late 2002 based on one off funding. During this time an HCV care plan more...
A look at Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) 2.5 years on
20/06/02  Beth Heldt It is now 2.5 years since the MBS items for health assessments, care planning and case conferencing were introduced and more...
Some fine print on some of the Extended Primary Care item numbers
23/03/02  Dr Chris Mitchell Preparing a care plan There is no need to interact with the other care providers about the patient’s care needs when: more...
How to use the care plan templates with MDW2
20/01/02   1. Identify with the patient any unmet care needs. 2. Consider a heath assessment, medication review, or case confer more...
Care plans and case conferences
20/07/01   A guide for people who don’t want to read the Medicare Benefits Schedule Book At least this is what I think it says, more...
The new MBS item numbers
20/05/01   Most of us would now be aware of a variety of of new item numbers. This article relates to the use of the items for Heal more...
CAD care plan summary
01/01/00   For patients with multidisciplinary care needs To be conducted by the patient's usual GP Care plans are a new initi more...
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