Read-only lookup of the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule: item numbers, descriptors, fees, benefits, item relationships and history.
What you can do
Search MBS items by item number or by words describing a procedure or service, with descriptors, schedule fees and Medicare benefits
Retrieve a single item as published, including fees, item type, dates, EMSN cap, assistant and anaesthetic flags, hospital-only status, time tier and exclusions
Show how the schedule links items: non-claimable pairs, add-on items and neighbouring items in the same group and subgroup
Compare a set of items for one occasion against descriptor rules, including time tiers, flags and the multiple operation rule
Show how an item's descriptor and schedule fee changed across the schedule releases held by the server
When to use it
Useful when you need to look up Australian MBS item numbers, fees or benefits, check whether items can be claimed together, or see what an item said or paid on an earlier date, without relying on recalled figures.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint at itemnumbers.app; no packages, environment variables or headers declared. No account is read by the tools.
Before you install
Results are reference information from the published schedule, not billing, legal or clinical advice; users should check the full descriptor and date of service. Do not send patient names, dates of birth, Medicare numbers or clinical notes. History covers only the releases ingested, so it is not a complete record.
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Find Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items by item number or by words describing the procedure or service. Returns each match's descriptor, schedule fee and Medicare benefits from the current schedule. Use it first when you have a procedure but not an item number. Never put patient identifiers in the query.
Parameterslimitqueryrequired
get_mbs_item
Get MBS item
Get one MBS item as published: full descriptor, fees and benefits, item type, dates, EMSN cap if any, and what the descriptor itself says: assistant and anaesthetic flags, hospital-only, time tier, and the items it excludes. Every figure comes from the schedule, never from memory.
Parametersitem_numberrequired
get_item_relationships
Get item relationships
Show how the schedule itself ties one item to others: items its descriptor (or another item's descriptor) says are not claimable with it, add-on items performed in association with it, and the neighbouring items filed in the same group and subgroup. Each link quotes the descriptor wording and names the item whose descriptor says it.
Parametersitem_numberrequired
check_item_combination
Check item combination
Compare a set of MBS items for one occasion with the rules written in their descriptors, as schedule reference information: pairs the schedule says are not claimable together, time tiers met or missed, flags for assistant, anaesthetic and hospital-only items, and the multiple operation rule for Group T8 items with the resulting total of schedule fees (a schedule figure, not a patient charge). It reports what the descriptors say and never drops an item; it does not decide what should be billed. Rules the schedule words in ways that are not coded, such as exempt items, are not checked.
Parametersdurationsitem_numbersrequired
get_item_history
Get item history
Show how one MBS item's descriptor and schedule fee changed across the schedule releases held here, newest first. Use it to answer what an item paid or said on an earlier date. Only the releases ingested are listed; it is not a complete history of the item.
Parametersitem_numberrequired
Version history
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v1.0.0LatestOct 29, 2026
Score
75%
75% of the applicable checks met
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Auth declaredRequired10 pts
Tools listedRequired15 pts
DescriptionRequired15 pts
Logo10 pts
Documentation15 pts
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License10 pts
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