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{
  "ItemsCount": 3,
  "MedicareItems": [
    {
      "ItemNumber": "4",
      "Description": "Professional attendance by a general practitioner (other than attendance at consulting rooms or a residential aged care facility or a service to which another item in this Schedule applies) that requires a short patient history and, if necessary, limited examination and management—an attendance on one or more patients at one place on one occasion—each patient\n",
      "Category": "1",
      "Group": "A1",
      "BenefitType": "_75_100",
      "ItemStartDate": "1989-12-01",
      "DerivedFee": "The fee for item 3, plus $31.50 divided by the number of patients seen, up to a maximum of six patients. For seven or more patients - the fee for item 3 plus $2.50 per patient."
    },
    {
      "ItemNumber": "701",
      "Description": "Professional attendance by a general practitioner to perform a brief health assessment, lasting not more than 30 minutes and including: (a) collection of relevant information, including taking a patient history; and (b) a basic physical examination; and (c) initiating interventions and referrals as indicated; and (d) providing the patient with preventive health care advice and information\n",
      "Category": "1",
      "Group": "A14",
      "BenefitType": "_100",
      "ItemStartDate": "2010-05-01",
      "ScheduleFee": "71.00",
      "ScheduleFeeStartDate": "2026-07-01",
      "ClaimHistoryLimitation": "Applicable according to MBS Note AN.0.36 depending on the patient's eligibility criteria. See the ELIGIBLE PATIENTS section."
    },
    {
      "ItemNumber": "63507",
      "Description": "MRI—scan of head for a patient under 16 years if the service is for:(a) an unexplained seizure; or(b) an unexplained headache if significant pathology is suspected; or(c) paranasal sinus pathology that has not responded to conservative therapy (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.)\n",
      "Category": "5",
      "Group": "I5",
      "BenefitType": "_75_85",
      "ItemStartDate": "2012-11-01",
      "SubGroup": "33",
      "ScheduleFee": "463.80",
      "ScheduleFeeStartDate": "2026-07-01",
      "ClaimHistoryLimitation": "Applicable not more than three times in a 12 month period.",
      "EligibleAgeRange": "younger than 16 years",
      "ReferralRequirements": "This item needs a referral from a provider recognised as 'Non-specialist medical practitioner'."
    }
  ]
}

Which items are in the current MBS?

That is the question this endpoint answers: every item in the current schedule, about 6,000, with RebateRight’s notes, in one response.

Retrieves the full list of Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items (~6,000 entries), each enriched with RebateRight-derived metadata such as MBS notes and the claim-history limitation period.

Every query parameter is optional. Send none and you get the whole catalogue in one response, with no paging fields on the body.

Errors

A 400 carries a plain-text message naming the parameter and what to send instead, not a JSON error envelope.

🔍 Responses below are truncated to 2 and 3 items so they stay readable. A real call returns every matching item, with ItemsCount reflecting the true total.

Authentication

x-api-keystring

API Key authentication via header

x-minor-idstring

Your Minor ID is three uppercase letters followed by five digits, such as MDE00001. Send the Minor ID exactly as issued. A malformed value gets a 400 with “The Minor ID is not valid.” on every endpoint.

Query parameters

categoryintegerOptional>=1

Return only the items in this MBS category, matching the Category field on each item.

pageNumberintegerOptional>=1

1-based page to return. Send it with pageSize; one without the other returns 400. A page starting past the last item returns an empty MedicareItems array, not an error.

pageSizeintegerOptional>=1

Number of items per page. Send it with pageNumber. There is no upper limit, so you can trade request count against response size.

Response

OK. The full MBS catalogue, or the category and page you asked for.

ItemsCountinteger

Number of items returned in MedicareItems. On a paged response this is the size of the page you received, which on the last page can be smaller than PageSize.

MedicareItemslist of objects

The MBS items for this request. One entry per item number.

TotalCountintegerOptional

Number of items matching the request before paging, across every page. Present only on a paged response. Divide by PageSize and round up for the page count.

PageNumberintegerOptional

The pageNumber that produced this response. Present only on a paged response.

PageSizeintegerOptional

The pageSize that produced this response. Present only on a paged response.