AAG submission: Review of MBS Health Assessment Items - 1 October 2024

AAG welcomes the work of the Department of Health and Aged Care in improving the health and quality of life
of older people, and the opportunity to comment on the review of MBS Health Assessment Items.

In reviewing the discussion paper, the use of MBS Health Assessment items are important for the timely heath
assessments to aid screening, diagnosis and treatment and to support healthy ageing/targeted preventative
care. AAG sees the existing health assessment items as effective, but with scope for improvement, and we
support the proposed Restructure Approach (pp15 to 16) to introduce a new item structure to better capture
timely health assessments.