Core AU · Medicare Benefits Schedule
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The MBS is the schedule used to define Medicare services, schedule fees and applicable benefit amounts. It is not the same thing as a provider's actual charge. Core AU ingests the official XML release and keeps a direct link back to MBS Online.
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31530Category 3 · Group T8Breast, biopsy of solid tumour or tissue of, using a vacuum-assisted breast biopsy device under imaging guidance, for histological examination, if imaging has demonstrated:(a) microcalcification of lesion; or(b) impalpable lesion less than one cm in diameter;including pre-operative localisation of lesion, if performed, other than a service associated with a service to which item 31548 applies
Schedule fee $712.95
85% benefit $608.45
31537Category 3 · Group T8Insertion of a marker clip into a breast, including axilla, following a breast biopsy and using imaging (but not including the associated imaging), if additional surgery, neoadjuvant systemic therapy, follow up imaging or radiation may be required and the insertion is for any of the following reasons: (a) to mark the site of a lesion that has been totally or almost completely removed; (b) to confirm biopsy site if multiple lesions are present; (c) to confirm biopsy site of an ill-defined lesion; (d) future surgery or preoperative localisation is considered to be potentially difficult due to lesion conspicuity; (e) preoperative localisation is likely to be carried out using a modality different from the biopsy modality; (f) for correlation across modalities for diagnostic reasons (Anaes.)
Schedule fee $226.75
85% benefit $192.75