In short: A free planner for the GP Chronic Condition Management Plan program (MBS items 965 and 967): annual preparations and three-monthly reviews, nurse hours and revenue for an Australian general practice.
How many chronic condition plans your practice should be preparing and reviewing, the nurse hours behind them, and what the program is worth — under the rules that replaced items 721 and 723 on 1 July 2025.
Free · Items 965 and 967 · Nurse workload
From a Bp search or Cubiko: diagnosis coded, seen in the last 12 months.
Separates new preparations from reviews of existing plans.
Item 965 fee $160.60, 100% benefit, MBS Online schedule fee updated 1 July 2026. Preparation and review are the same amount. Indexes each 1 July.
Adjust the numbers — the plan updates live.
The GPCCMP replaced the GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangement on 1 July 2025. One plan, prepared once every twelve months if necessary and reviewed once every three months where clinically relevant, with the same rebate for both. No collaborating providers, no allied health referral unless the patient needs one, no prescribed list of conditions — the test is a condition present for at least six months. The one rule that trips practices is co-claiming: the plan items cannot be billed by the same practitioner on the same day as a standard consultation for the same patient — a different GP can see an acute problem that day, the same GP cannot bill both — so the program needs its own appointments, its own recalls, and a nurse who assists with preparation and review. That is what this planner sizes.
Not by the same practitioner. MBS Online states the planning and review items cannot be co-claimed by the same practitioner on the same day for the same patient as the general attendance items (3, 4, 23, 24, 36, 37, 44, 47, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 123, 124, 151 and 165). A practice nurse item such as 10997 can be claimed the same day where the nurse provides a separate, clinically relevant service consistent with the plan.
Prepared once every 12 months if necessary; reviewed once every three months where clinically relevant. A new plan is not required each year — an existing plan can keep being reviewed. Earlier services need exceptional circumstances.
A chronic medical condition present, or likely to be present, for at least six months, or terminal. There is no prescribed list; it is the GP’s clinical judgement. Residential aged care residents are excluded. See our GPCCMP explainer for the full rules and sources.
MBS Online: item 965 has a fee of $160.60 with a 100 per cent benefit, schedule fee updated 1 July 2026, and preparation (965) and review (967) attract the same amount. It is pre-filled and editable because it indexes each July.
An estimate from the numbers you enter, for planning conversations only. It is not billing, legal, tax or financial advice. Verify every item number and rebate on MBS Online before you bill.
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