Australian Government - Department of Health and Ageing

Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC)

Application 1005

Visual electrodiagnosis

Visual electrodiagnosis

Application No.1005
Application NameVisual electrodiagnosis
Advisory PanelsProfessor Peter Phelan
(Chair and MSAC member)
Assoc Professor Frank Fisher
(Consumers' Health Forum nominee)
Dr Con Yiannikas
(Australian Association of Neurologists nominee)
Assoc Professor Hector Maclean
(co-opted member)
Assoc Professor Denis Stark
(Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthamologists nominee)
Assoc Professor Justin O'Day
(Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthamologists nominee)
Assoc Professor Ian Favilla
(co-opted member)
Date Received by MSAC Secretariat5 August 1999
Stage 1 - EligibilityEligible
Stage 2 - AssessmentCompleted
Stage 3 - Formulation of Advice to the MinisterThis assessment was considered by the MSAC at the 28 February 2001 meeting.

The MSAC recommended public funding be supported for:
  • electroretinography
  • pattern electroretinography
  • dark adaptometry
  • electro-oculography
  • visual evoked responses

But public funding should not be supported at this time for:
  • focal electroretinography
  • multifocal electroretinography
  • multifocal visual evoked potential
  • scotopic threshold response
  • intensity response function
Stage 4 - DecisionEndorsed by the Minister for Health and Ageing 19 June 2001
Stage 5 - ImplementationImplemented