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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 24 Jun 2025

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Upcoming changes to Women’s Health Assessment items and Chronic Disease Management items

On-demand recorded 24 Jun 2025

This webinar was presented in collaboration with the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. The webinar provides an overview of the following perimenopause and menopause health assessment items, including:

  • The new health assessment items, which will commence on 1 July 2025, will be available annually to all Medicare eligible patients who are experiencing premature ovarian insufficiency, early menopause, perimenopause, or menopause symptoms, or undergoing treatment for these symptoms.
  • Medicare health assessment services promote a proactive approach to identifying and responding to a patient’s holistic health and physical, psychological and social needs.
  • The Medicare fee for a menopause health assessment delivered by a GP will be $101.90
  • The items will be available for an initial period of two years. Longer-term arrangements for the items will be informed by outcomes of the MBS Health Assessment Review, expected in 2025.
  • Further advice on the new item’s requirements will be made public as soon as possible. However, the items will be consistent with existing health assessment items in that they will involve a range of activities, such as information collection, including taking a patient history and undertaking or arranging examinations and investigations as required, making an overall assessment of the patient, recommending appropriate interventions, and providing advice and information to the patient.

 

This webinar also provides an overview of the following CDM item number changes:

  • Replacing GP Management Plans and Team Care Arrangements with a single GP Chronic Condition Management Plan
  • Removal of the requirement to consult with at least two collaborating providers, as described under the current Team Care Arrangement
  •  Providing for practice nurses, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners and Aboriginal heath workers to assist with the preparation/review of plans
  • Supporting continuity of care by requiring patients registered through MyMedicare to access plans and reviews through the practice where they are registered
  •  Equalising the fees for development and review of a plan to support ongoing reviews
  • Moving to referral letters for referrals to allied health services
  • A 2-year transition period for existing patients with a GP Management Plan and/or Team Care Arrangement.

Learning outcomes

  1. Identify new MBS item numbers for women’s health assessments and chronic condition management and when to appropriately bill these.
  2. Outline key changes taking place regarding the revised framework for chronic disease management and new women’s health assessment items (including which conditions this includes).
  3. Identify the benefits of new MBS item numbers for women’s health assessments and chronic condition management.
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Facilitator

Dr Michael Wright
RACGP President

MBBS MSC PhD FRACGP GAICD Dr Michael Wright is a general practitioner, health economist and health services researcher based in Sydney, Australia. He commenced as RACGP President on 21 November 2024. Michael is also an Associate Professor at the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales. He combines clinical practice with strategic appointments and academic research analysing the effects of health policy on the quality and performance of primary care. Michael completed GP registrar training in Queensland and previously worked in London as a GP, where he completed his Masters in Public Health and was also a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Michael completed his PhD in Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2019. His PhD investigated the impact of continuity of general practice care on health outcomes, and his research interest including growing the evidence base about the value of high-quality primary care, and health policy research into quality, efficiency and sustainability of heath services.

Presenters

Imogen Colton
Director of the General Practice Section in the MBS Policy and Reviews Branch, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Imogen has been in this role for over two years and has previously worked in policy and program roles in a number of Australian Government departments. Her team is responsible for a range of MBS items for general practice, including bulk billing incentives, attendance items, chronic disease management items and health assessments. Imogen has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Louise Riley
Assistant Secretary of the MBS Policy and Reviews Branch, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Louise has over 25 years’ experience working for the Australian Government on a wide range of complex health policy issues and programs, including MBS policy and reform, population health, aged care, mental health, primary care and health financing, and on a number of cross portfolio issues including the NDIS. Currently, she is leading teams responsible for MBS policy on telehealth, general practice, primary care and some specialist services, and she is also responsible for the Continuous Review of the MBS and supporting the work of the MBS Review Advisory Committee. Louise has a Master of Public Health from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the Australian National University.

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