Resources
Specialty billing guides
The billing rules for anaesthetists, physicians and surgical assistants.
Anaesthetists
- How to bill for anaesthetic services in AustraliaAnaesthetic billing step by step: base item, time units, ASA and age modifiers, after-hours loading, and what Medicare and each fund pay. Worked examples.
Physicians
- A new physician's guide to inpatient billingSetting up for private inpatient consulting: provider numbers, gap cover, ECLIPSE, MBS items 110 to 133, costs, pitfalls and choosing billing support.
Surgical assistants
- 1Surgical assistant billingHow a surgical assistant fee is worked out under the Multiple Operation Rule, what Medicare and the fund pay, and how to choose no-gap or known-gap.
- 2Surgical assistants and the Multiple Operation RuleThe surgical assistant fee under the Multiple Operation Rule: items 51300 and 51303, the rule applied twice, the threshold trap, worked examples at 2026 fees.
- 3Item reference: 51300 and 51303Surgical assistant items 51300, 51303, 51306 and 51309 in plain terms: which one to claim, what each pays at 1 July 2026 and what the claim needs.