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The Medicare Benefits Schedule defines after hours consultations as follows:
- After hours consultations, in the practice:
– Monday to Friday – before 8am or after 8pm
– Saturday – before 8am or after 1pm
– Sunday and public holidays – all day
- After hours consultations, if the condition requires urgent assessment and the attendance requires the practitioner to open the consulting rooms, or in a Residential Aged Care Home (RACH), or an attendance other than consulting rooms/hospital or RACH:
– Monday to Friday – before 8am or after 6pm
– Saturday – before 8am or after 12pm
– Sunday and public holidays – all day
- Unsociable hours are 11pm to 7am, but the patient must require urgent medical care to use the item numbers related to unsociable hours.