MBS claim check
Checked against the MBS in force from 1 November 2026 · Last updated 12 November 2026
Check a consult note against the Medicare Benefits Schedule before you claim. Each item comes back Supported, Possible or Not supported, with the sentence in the note behind it, its Medicare benefit and the total for the consult.
How it checks a note
- The AI finds the facts. It reads the transcript or the note and answers a fixed list of questions about what the record says, such as whether a care plan was prepared and the patient agreed to it. Each answer quotes the exact words it came from, and the AI never sees item numbers, fees or rules.
- Fixed, dated rules decide. Each item is checked against the schedule in force on the date of service, by rules, not by the AI. You set what a note can’t say: in the room, by video or by phone, whether you bulk bill, and the patient’s MyMedicare registration.
- You get a list to copy. The claim check lists the items with each one’s Medicare benefit and the total. Copy the item numbers and the note into your practice software, a click each. Nothing is sent to Medicare.
Three answers
A check that can say no is one you can believe.
- Supported
- Every part of the descriptor is in the note, and the sentences that show it are linked.
- Possible
- Part of the descriptor isn’t in the note. The check names the part. It never tells you to add it.
- Not supported
- The note doesn’t support it, or another item takes its place. The check says which.
A note from any scribe
Already use Heidi, Lyrebird or another scribe? Paste its note, or one you typed, and the same check runs on it (how it works). The free plan includes 15 checks a week on pasted notes. If checking is all you need, the Check plan is A$29 a month, or A$261 a year: unlimited checks of pasted notes, with fair use up to 1,500 a month, and no recording.
Or record in MBS Scribe. Your computer’s microphone hears you both, in the room or with the call on your speakers, and recording starts only after you mark the patient’s consent. When you stop, the note is drafted and checked.
When the schedule changes
MBS Online is checked around the clock, and a person reviews every change before it reaches a check. Each consult is checked against the schedule in force on its date of service: a 31 October consult uses the old rules, a 1 November consult the new ones.
Until a changed descriptor has been reviewed, an item that depends on it shows as Possible, not Supported. Retired items stay retired: a test blocks any rule that mentions one. See what changed on 1 November 2026.
The record behind each claim
When you copy the item numbers, the claim is kept with what it rested on: the items, the sentences behind each one, the recorded time and when you copied them. It stays with the consult in your account.
What it won’t do
- Submit claims. You claim in your own practice software.
- Tell you what to write. When part of a descriptor is missing, the check names it and leaves the note to you.
- Diagnose or treat. It reads what you documented against the schedule. It never proposes a diagnosis, a test or a treatment.
- Decide for you. You review every note, decide every item, and stay responsible for what you claim.
Where your data goes
Notes, transcripts and the audit log are stored in Sydney, and transcription runs there. For now, AI note drafting and fact finding run on Anthropic’s service outside Australia, as the privacy policy explains. Audio is never stored, and nothing you record is used to train models.
The items it checks
These are the item families the claim check covers today, in MBS Scribe’s own words. Each number links to its full descriptor on MBS Online. The video and phone items are explained in plain words here, and so are the in-person Levels A to E, the chronic condition management plans and the bulk-billing incentives.
- In-person attendances at a home or another place, in and after hours
- 4 24 37 47 124 5003 5023 5043 5063 5076
- In-person attendances in a residential care home, in and after hours
- 90001 90020 90035 90043 90051 90054 5010 5028 5049 5067 5077
- Chronic condition management plans
- Preparing and reviewing a plan, face to face, by video or by phone.
- 965 967 92029 92030 92033 92034
- Bulk-billing incentives, by your practice's Modified Monash area
- MM 1, MM 2, MM 3 to 4, MM 5, MM 6 and MM 7, each with its general, Level B telehealth and MyMedicare longer telehealth item.
- 10990 75870 75880 10991 75871 75881 75855 75873 75882 75856 75874 75883 75857 75875 75884 75858 75876 75885
- Health assessments
- Including the heart health, menopause and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments.
- 701 703 705 707 699 695 715 92004
- Eating disorder plans, reviews and treatment
- 90250 90251 90252 90253 92146 92147 92148 92149 90264 92170 92176 90271 90272 90273 90274 92182 92184 92194 92196
- Focussed psychological strategies
- 2721 2723 2725 2727 2739 2741 2743 2745 91818 91819 91842 91843 91859 91861 91864 91865
- Blood borne virus, sexual and reproductive health telehealth
- 92715 92718 92721 92724 92731 92734 92737 92740
- With the patient while a specialist consults by video
- 2484 2485 2486 2487 2488 2489 2490 2491 2492 2493 2494 2495
- Skin and minor procedures
- Wound repair, foreign body removal, biopsies, excision and ablation of skin lesions, nail procedures, implants and IUD insertion, cautery for a nosebleed, venesection and catheterisation.
- 30026 30029 30032 30035 30038 30042 30045 30049 30052 30061 30064 41500 41659 42644 30071 30072 30192 30196 30202 31356 31357 31358 31360 31361 31362 31363 31364 31365 31366 31367 31368 31369 31370 31371 31372 31373 31374 31375 31376 31377 31378 31379 31380 31381 31382 31383 31220 31225 31227 30216 30219 46513 46528 46531 47904 47915 47916 47918 14203 14206 30062 35503 41677 13757 36800 35501
Try it on your next note
Start free: 15 checks a week on pasted notes, and a one-off 14-day recording trial, up to 10 hours. Plans are in Australian dollars, per doctor; see pricing.
Item descriptions on this page are paraphrased. The full descriptors are on MBS Online.