Hospital psychiatric services - MBS item (6024)

The following MBS item is included in this clinical category.

6024
Professional attendance by an addiction medicine specialist in the practice of the addiction medicine specialist's specialty of at least 20 minutes, after the first attendance in a single course of treatment for a review of a patient with at least 2 morbidities if: (a) a review is undertaken that covers: (i) review of initial presenting problems and results of diagnostic investigations; and (ii) review of responses to treatment and medication plans initiated at time of initial consultation; and (iii) comprehensive multi or detailed single organ system assessment; and (iv) review of original and differential diagnoses; and (b) the modified addiction medicine specialist treatment and management plan is provided to the referring practitioner, which involves, if appropriate: (i) a revised opinion on diagnosis and risk assessment; and (ii) treatment options and decisions; and (iii) revised medication recommendations; and (c) an attendance on the patient to which item 104, 105, 110, 116, 119, 132, 133, 6018, 6019, 91825, 92422, 92423, 92440 or 92443 applies did not take place on the same day by the same addiction medicine specialist; and (d) a service to which item 6023 applies was provided to the patient by the same addiction medicine specialist or a locum tenens in the preceding 12 months; and (e) not more than 2 services to which this item applies have been provided to the patient by the same addiction medicine specialist or a locum tenens in any 12 month period