Medicare Benefits Schedule Electrocardiogram Review Committee – appointment of Committee Members

The Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Committee was established in March 2021 to review electrocardiogram (ECG) items introduced on 1 August 2020, following recommendations from the MBS Review Taskforce.

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Membership

  • Professor Sally McCarthy – Emergency Department Physician from New South Wales as Chair
  • Dr John Collis – General Practitioner from Western Australia
  • Dr Christopher McCue – General Practitioner from Victoria
  • Dr Michael Davis – Cardiologist from Western Australia
  • Dr Brett Montgomery – General Practitioner representing Doctors Reform Society
  • Dr Steven Unger – Nuclear Medicine and Cardiologist from South Australia representing Australasian College of Nuclear Medicine Specialists 
  • Dr Liz Dodd – General Practitioner from New South Wales representing Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine 
  • Dr Simon Torvaldsen – General Practitioner from Western Australia representing Australian Medical Association
  • Professor Michael Feneley – Cardiologist from New South Wales representing Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand 
  • Dr Atef Asham – General Practitioner from Victoria representing Royal Australian college of General Practitioners 
  • Dr Ewen McPhee – General Practitioner from Queensland representing Rural Doctors Association of Australia 
  • Dr Aubrey Almeida – Cardiothoracic Surgeon from Victoria representing Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac & Thoracic Surgeons 
  • Ms Tanya Hall – Consumer from Victoria (Hearts4Heart founder)
  • Dr Tony Hayek – General Practitioner from New South Wales representing Australian Private Hospital Association 
  • Dr Chris Dalton – General Practitioner from New South Wales representing Private Healthcare Australia 
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