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  • Chronic disease management
  • General Practitioner

Item 729

GP contribution to a multidisciplinary care plan (non-RACF, face-to-face)

Contribution by a general practitioner to a multidisciplinary care plan prepared for a patient by another provider, OR to a review of such a plan, where the patient is not a resident of an aged care facility. Face-to-face attendance. The legacy collaborative-care pathway that operated alongside the (now retired) Team Care Arrangement (item 723); 729 continues to operate post-1 July 2025 for scenarios where another provider holds the plan. Telehealth video equivalent is item 92026.

Plain-English summary. See MBS Online for the verbatim descriptor of each item.

  • TimeNot specified
  • FrequencyOnce per 3-month period (exceptions for significant clinical changes documented as exceptional circumstances).
  • ReferralNot required
  • ProfessionGeneral Practitioner

Requirements to bill

Conditions imposed by the descriptor that must be met to claim this item.

  1. A multidisciplinary care plan must already have been prepared for the patient by another provider — 729 is a contribution item, not a preparation item.
  2. Patient must NOT be a resident of an aged care facility (use item 731 if RACF or hospital discharge).
  3. GP must be a non-specialist, non-consultant-physician medical practitioner.
  4. Service must be face-to-face (telehealth video equivalent is 92026).
  5. Patient must not have received a GP chronic condition management plan service (965 / 967 / 92029 / 92030) within the preceding 12 months — the GPCCMP framework excludes 729 contribution claims during the same care episode.
  6. Service must not have been associated with items 235–240, 735, 739, 743, 747, 750, or 758 (case-conference items).
  7. At least 3 months must have elapsed since the previous 729 / 92026 claim, unless exceptional circumstances apply.

Your notes must show

Documentation tests — what clinical notes need to record to match what the item asks.

  • Identification of the multidisciplinary care plan being contributed to — the lead provider, the date the plan was prepared, and the patient's clinical context.
  • The GP's specific clinical contribution — what assessment, recommendation, or coordination input the GP brought to the plan or review.
  • Communication evidence — letter, secure message, or documented phone exchange with the lead provider (or the multidisciplinary team) confirming the contribution was received.
  • Confirmation that the patient is not in residential aged care and is not within a hospital admission (use 731 in those cases).
  • Confirmation that no GPCCMP service (965 / 967 / 92029 / 92030) has been claimed for this patient in the preceding 12 months.
  • Date of the previous 729 / 92026 claim (if any) — must be more than 3 months ago, or exceptional circumstances must be documented.

Common audit failures

Patterns the Professional Services Review scheme and Medicare audits flag.

  • Item 729 claimed within 12 months of a 965 / 967 / 92029 / 92030 claim for the same patient — this exclusion is automatically rejected.
  • Item claimed within 3 months of the previous 729 / 92026 claim without exceptional-circumstances documentation.
  • No evidence of contribution — note reads as a routine consultation rather than input to a multidisciplinary plan.
  • No identification of the lead provider who prepared the plan.
  • Item billed for a RACF resident or for a contribution to a hospital-discharge plan — those scenarios use 731.
  • Item billed by a specialist or consultant physician — 729 is GP-only (non-specialist).

Related MBS items

Templates that document this item

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Source authority

Documentation tests on this page reference the descriptor conditions and PSR-audit patterns covered in our existing Library guides. Always confirm current rules against the official descriptor.

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