MBS Primary Care Items
Optometry Items - Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS)
This information should be read in conjunction with the item descriptors and explanatory notes for items 10900 to 10943 (as set out in the Medicare Benefits Schedule [MBS]), as well as the Common Form of Undertaking for Participating Optometrists.
Information about optometry items, including item descriptors, explanatory notes and rebates are available at MBS Online under ‘Downloads’.
The following optometry fact sheets are available:
Contact information for the Department of Health and Ageing
Telephone:(02) 6289 1555
Email:
mbsonline@health.gov.au
Website:
http://www.health.gov.au/mbsprimarycareitems
Program/Initiatives
All Program/InitiativesPublications
- Report to Health Ministers : Second Progress Report on the Implementation of the National Framework for Action to Promote Eye Health and Prevent Avoidable Blindness and Vision Loss
- Final report - Risk factors for eye disease and injury
- Trachoma Surveillance Report 2006 to 2010
- Guidelines for the public health management of trachoma in Australia
