BMD Medicare Requirements
Item 12306 - One service every 12 months
- Fractures after minimal trauma
- Monitoring of osteoperosis proven by bone density
Item 12312 - One service every 12 months
- Prolonged glucocorticoid therapy
- Excess glucocortoid secretion
- Ovarian hypofunction (amenorrhoea >6 months before 45 yrs)
- Male hypogonadism
Item 12315 - One service every 24 months
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Proven melabsorption
- Excess thyroxine
- Chronic liver disease
- Chronic renal disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
Item 12321 - One service every 12 months
- Significant change in therapy for osteoperosis
Item 12323
- Patients over 70
Nuchal Translucency requirements for partial rebate
To qualify for a rebate from from Medicare($59.50): one or more of the following prerequisites must appear on the referral:
- Hyperemesis gravidarum
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypertension
- Toxaemia of pregnancy
- Liver or renal disease
- Autoimmune disease
- Cardiac disease
- Alloimmunisation
- Maternal infection
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Bowel stoma
- Abdominal wall scarring
- Previous spinal or pelvic trauma or disease
- Drug dependency
- Thrombophilia
- Significant maternal obesity
- Advanced maternal age
- Abdominal pain or mass
- Uncertain dates
- High risk pregnancy
- Previous post dates delivery
- Previous caesarean section
- Poor obstetric history
- Suspicion of ectopic pregnancy
- Risk of miscarriage
- Diminished symptoms of pregnancy
- Suspected or known cervical incompetence
- Suspected or known uterine abnormality
- Pregnancy after assisted reproduction
- Risk of foetal abnormality
