What is MBS Desk?

How it works

1. Paste or type what happened in the consult. Leave out names and anything else that could identify the patient.
2. MBS Desk reads the notes. If it needs something they don’t say, like how long the consult took, it asks you.
3. You see the items the consult fits, with their fees, what to check before you bill, and a link to the MBS passage behind each one.

Who it’s for

GPs, GP registrars, and nurse practitioners in Australia, and the practice staff who help them with billing.

What it covers

More than 800 MBS item numbers that GPs and nurse practitioners bill in their practices: consultations, care plans, mental health, health assessments, procedures, tests, and incentives. You can browse them in the quick guide to MBS item numbers.

Where the answers come from

From the MBS itself: the item descriptions and explanatory notes on MBS Online, the Australian Government’s MBS website. Where the MBS doesn’t say, from Services Australia’s guidance.

An AI model reads your notes, but it doesn’t decide what you can bill. That comes from rules written from the MBS’s own words, and each rule links to the passage it comes from.

MBS Desk can get things wrong. If you’re not sure, check MBS Online: you’re responsible for the claim. See the Disclaimer.

Checked every morning

Every morning, MBS Desk checks that it matches the MBS in force on MBS Online. Each item page shows the day it was last checked.

For billing only

MBS Desk says whether an item fits a consult. It doesn’t say what care a patient needs, and it doesn’t answer clinical questions.

Your patients’ privacy

• Enter de-identified notes only. MBS Desk works without knowing who your patients are.
• We log chats to improve MBS Desk. They’re stored in Sydney against a random id, not your name.
• To answer you, what you enter is processed by AI providers in the United States. They don’t use it to train their models.
• We don’t sell personal information, show ads, or use tracking cookies.

The Privacy Policy has the details.

Free to read

Anyone can read the quick guide to MBS item numbers, the pages for the most-searched items, and the guides to GP care plan item numbers (GPCCMP), skin cancer MBS item numbers, and medicare Healthy Kids Check.

Who makes MBS Desk

MBS Desk is an Australian business. It’s independent, and isn’t affiliated with Medicare or any government body. For more, see the questions about MBS Desk, or email admin@mbsdesk.com.au.