Breast surgery (medically necessary) - MBS item (31537)

The following MBS item is included in this clinical category.

31537
Insertion 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.)