Australian Government - Department of Health and Ageing

Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC)

1001 - 1020

Completed Assessments 1001 - 1020



1001 - Advanced breast biopsy instrumentation

1002 - Oto-acoustic emission audiometry

1003 - OctreoScan® scintigraphy for gastro-entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

1004 - Transmyocardial laser revascularisation

1005 - Visual electrodiagnosis

1006 - Endoluminal grafting for abdominal aortic aneurysm

1007 - Saline infusion sonohysterography

1008 - Photodynamic therapy for skin and mucosal cancer

1009 - Sacral nerve stimulation for urinary incontinence

1010 - Intravascular extraction of chronically implanted permanent transvenous pacing leads
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1011 - Lung volume reduction surgery - for advanced emphysema

1012 - Vertebral axial decompression therapy for chronic lower back pain

1013 - Treatment for diseased states of the inner ear - deemed ineligible


1014 - TransUrethral Needle Ablation (TUNA) for benign prostatic hyperplasia

1015 - Directional, vacuum-assisted breast biopsy

1016 - Samarium153-lexidronam for bone pain due to skeletal metasteses

1017 - Chelation therapy - deemed ineligible


1018-1020 - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy


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