{"id":535046,"date":"2026-07-20T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535046\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:25:09","slug":"psychiatrist-to-repay-418000-in-rebates-after-misusing-rtms-medicare-items-psr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535046\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist to repay $418,000 in rebates after misusing rTMS Medicare items: PSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A psychiatrist will repay Medicare $418,000 after inappropriately billing Medicare for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, charging administration fees to bulk-billed patients and letting another practitioner use their provider number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest update from the Professional Services Review (PSR) says the psychiatrist came to its attention because they had billed repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) items more frequently than 99% of their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Items 14216 and 14219 \u2014 both with an 85% rebate of $182.30 \u2014 cover treatment mapping for initial and subsequent courses of rTMS, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two other items, 14217 and 14220, provide rebates for up to 35 initial treatments and 15 subsequent treatments, respectively. They have an 85% rebate of $156.40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A psychiatrist will repay Medicare $418,000 after inappropriately billing Medicare for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, charging administration fees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-535046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}