Kidney and bladder - MBS item (18379)

The following MBS item is included in this clinical category.

18379
Botulinum Toxin Type A Purified Neurotoxin Complex (Botox), intravesical injection of, with cystoscopy, for the treatment of urinary incontinence, including all such injections on any one day, if: (a)the urinary incontinence is due to idiopathic overactive bladder in a patient: and (b)the patient is at least 18 years of age; and (c)the patient has urinary incontinence that is inadequately controlled by at least 2 alternative anti- cholinergic agents, as manifested by having experienced at least 14 episodes of urinary incontinence per week before commencement of treatment with botulinum toxin; and (d)the patient is willing and able to self-catheterise; and (e)treatment is not provided on the same occasion as a service mentioned in item 104, 105, 110, 116, 119, 11900 or 11919 For each patient-applicable not more than once except if the patient achieves at least a 50% reduction in urinary incontinence episodes from baseline at any time during the period of 6 to 12 weeks after first treatment (H) (Anaes.)