| Date of update |
Comments |
| May 2010 |
Changes to primary care attendance items - mainly for GPs. Not required for anaesthetists unless using items 97, 601, 696, 697. These replaced with 598, 600. Download here. |
| Feb 2010 |
Corrected missing time item code for eye surgery items CA149,150,152,156. Download here. |
| Dec 2009 |
New ASA items for eye surgery - CA149, CA150, CA152, CA156 (glaucoma, eye injury, enucleation, radical eye surgery). Increased unit value for CA143 (retina). Download here. |
| Nov 2009 |
MBS unit rate increased 40s to $18.80. No other anaesthetic changes. ASA RVG schedule - new items for pain management, time units each 5 min after 4 hours, new PICC items CV035, CV036. Download here. |
| Feb 2009 |
Minor changes to ASA RVG schedule. CH920 unit value increased from 3 to 4. Item number CV899 (allergy testing) changed to CV981. Download here. Document on changes is here. |
| Nov 2008 |
Updated MBS & ASA RVG fees. Two new anaesthesia items. Download here. |
| July 2008 |
36 new items, including 12 RVG anaesthesia items. Download here. |
| Nov 2007_2 |
2nd release, dated November 19. Includes new items in ASA RVG schedule for microvascular free flap surgery. Download here. |
| Nov 2007 |
Updated fees. No additional anaesthetic changes. |
| May 2007 |
Minor update. No changes for anaesthetists from Nov 2006. Download here. |
| Nov 2006 |
For changes see this pdf document. Download here. |
| Sep 2006 |
Minor ASA RVG changes - Replaced item BL650 (IABP) with new item BL655. 5 units. Replaced item BM035 (Airway) with new item BM040.
BM045 changed from 2 to 3 units.
Update postcode database to remove some unnecessary postcodes. Download here. |
| May 2006 |
New items for pain and palliative care medicine (2801 - 3093). A number of other minor changes mostly not relevant to anaesthetists or intensivists. Download here. |
| Nov 2005 |
Unit value increased to 17.15. New and modified items. Time units each 10 min after 2 hours (previously 4 hours). Download here. Changes described in this pdf file. |
| Nov 2004 |
Updated unit value by 35c to $16.85. Minor revisions to ASA RVG schedule. Download here. |
| May 2004 |
New item for TOE for cardiac valve surgery (55135). Reduced fee for item 55130. New central line items 34538 & 34539. |
| Dec 2003 |
ASA RVG schedule updated on Nov 11. No change in MBS file. |
| Nov 2003 |
Increase of approx 2.5% in non-RVG anaesthesia related items. RVG unit value unchanged at $16.50. DVA fees up 2.7%. ASA RVG up to $56.00. |
| May 2003 |
New anaesthesia items 20440, 21112, 21114, 21116. New Botox items 18350 -18370. |
| Dec 6 2002 |
Added fees for items 18219, 18227, 25200, 25205. Inserted the MBS-RVG linking table into the file (was previously in user's data file). A few other minor adjustments. To check version, go to the File Management Menu, click Select an Items file, click on AAItems2002_Nov and in the description box check that the MBS items file was updated on Dec 6. |
| Nov 9 2002 |
Corrected fee for item 18226 to $230.90. This fee is incorrectly stated in the printed book as $225.30. |
| Oct 31 2002 |
New schedule for November 2002. Unit value decrease to 16.50. |
| July 7 2002 |
Minor modifications to some of data - modifier descriptions, MBS/RVG links. These changes automatically performed during update to version 3.2 of Access Anaesthetics. Updates items file from version 3.0 to 3.2. |
| Apr 30 2002 |
New file for Medicare update of May 1, 2002. |
| Nov 2001 (Re-released) |
Re-released on April 2, 2002 to correct 3 minor errors. |
| Nov 2001 (Re-released) |
Re-released on Nov 2 to correct an error where, in some cases, items could not be added to an account directly from the MBS book. |
| Nov 2001 (Re-released) |
Includes the revised RVG schedule from the ASA for Nov 2001. All previous versions included the ASA fee schedule from June 1998. |
| Nov 2001 (Oct12) |
Major changes incorporating the RVG into the Medicare Benefits Schedule. A completely new set of item numbers has been introduced. Download using the link above. (Re-released on Oct 20 to include fees for items 22060, 25020 and 25025 which were omitted due to an inconsistency in the file supplied by the HIC.) |
| July 2001 |
A few new items, mostly related to echocardiography, angiocardiography or arteriocardiography. |
| May 2001 |
A few new, modified and deleted items. No change in unit value from $14.80. No RVG-related changes. |
| November 2000 |
New, modified and deleted items for November 2000. Unit value increased to $14.80. No RVG-related changes. |
| June 2000 |
No changes of significance for anaesthetists since the May version. Fee changes for a number of pathology items only. |
| May 2000 |
Contains new and modified items. No change in the anaesthetic unit value from $14.60. |
| February 2000 |
Only changes from Nov 1999 were in diagnostic ultrasound items. |
| November 1999 |
MBS November 1999, RVG June 1998 and postcodes. |