Creating a healthier, better connected Gippsland.

Better Billing Webinar Series: The 715 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Assessment – Session One

Western Victoria Primary Health Network are pleased to invite you to this 3-part webinar series where attendees will learn better ways to bill and use MBS numbers.

 Presenter: 

  • Ash Van Leeuwestyn, Better Billing

 SESSION ONE: 

The 715 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Assessment

Learning outcomes: 

  • Identify and promote ways to achieve health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • Identify and promote social, environmental and cultural determinants of health in the local community
  • Facilitate timely and appropriate use of relevant Indigenous-specific health measures and MBS/PBS items
  • Identify and implement appropriate policies and initiatives regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to optimise outcomes

 SESSION TWO: 

Small, mighty and lost – the MBS numbers we are all missing

Learning outcomes: 

  • Define a planned and opportunistic approach to provide health screening, preventive care and health-promotion activities in a culturally appropriate way
  • Identify and promote ways to achieve health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

SESSION THREE: 

Care plans and chronic disease – the MBS update

Learning outcomes: 

  • Develop chronic disease management plans that address the interactions and complications of multisystem disease and the use of multiple medications
  • Identify appropriate Medicare item numbers that assist in the management of chronic disease

Dates: 

  • Session One: 29th October 7.00pm – 8.00pm
  • Session Two: 20th November 7.00pm – 8.00pm
  • Session Three: 10th December 7.00pm – 8.00pm
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