What services are not included on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS)?

The Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) does not include a wide range of medical and health services:

• treatment as a private patient in a public hospital
• private patient hospital costs (such as theatre fees for accommodation)
• medical costs which the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) has determined are not clinically necessary
• surgery for cosmetic reasons
• medical costs that another organisation or agency is responsible for (such as a compensation insurer, employer or government body or agency)
• examinations for life insurance or superannuation
• ambulance services
• medical and hospital costs incurred overseas
• medicines – these are covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) 
• dental examinations and treatment (except specified items for allied health services included as part of the Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) program)
• eye therapy (except for the diagnosis and treatment of a developmental disorder or other disability for a person under the age of 25)
• home nursing
• prescription glasses and contact lenses
• hearing aids
• cost of prostheses (except External Breast Prostheses covered by the External Breast Prostheses Program.