Resources

This document contains the advice on the Prostheses List adjusted benefit amounts resulting from the public benchmarking undertaken by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IPHA). It lists the benefits on 1 March 2022 and the new benefits that will come into effect on 1 July 2022.

Communiques for the Prostheses List Reform Governance Group meetings.

This spreadsheet classifies MBS items by private health insurance clinical category or procedure type and includes MBS items commencing 1 July 2022.

This spreadsheet classifies MBS items by private health insurance clinical category or procedure type and includes MBS items commencing 1 April 2022 and 11 April 2022.

Standard clinical category definitions for private health insurance hospital policies, effective 1 July 2022.

Standard clinical category definitions for private health insurance hospital policies, effective 11 April 2022.

View the grouping schemes for each product category in the Prostheses List, effective from 1 March 2020. They include suffixes and definitions.

This guide explains the listing process for the Prostheses List, including how to apply to add a new listing or change an existing listing.

This document sets out the purpose, roles, function and composition of PLAC.

These guidelines set out how PLAC will operate to deliver on its Terms of Reference.

This document sets out the roles, function, membership, meetings and secretariat of the Governance Group.

This document is the terms of reference for the review of the General Miscellaneous Category of the Prostheses List.

This report describes the proceedings of the Revised Benefit Setting and Review Framework Industry Working Group (BSRIWG) over 8 meetings held between April 2018 and February 2020.

This document reports on the outcomes of the Review of the General Miscellaneous Category of the Prostheses List.

This statement describes how the Department of Health recovers the costs of administering the Prostheses List.

The Australian Government is investing $22 million over 4 years to modernise and improve the Prostheses List (PL). This includes addressing issues raised by recent reviews of the scope and operation of PL.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify details of the government’s decision to better define the PL purpose, definitions, and scope and explore how this might be implemented in delegated legislation and the guidance.

This document outlines frequently asked questions regarding the Consultation Paper No 1 – Prostheses List (PL) purpose, definitions and scope.

This statement describes how the Department of Health recovers the costs of administering the Prostheses List.

This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Minister for Health and Aged care and the Medical Technology Association of Australia.

This fact sheet is a list of the reviews of prostheses list since 1985.

The executive summary shows the stakeholder views to improvements to the Protheses List (PL) as announced in the 2021- 22 Federal Budget.

A list of all the items in the Prostheses list by private hospital type.