Current as of 15 September 2026. Every figure below was checked against the MBS item pages on that date.
Current rebates at a glance
These are the standard individual chronic condition management allied health items. All four carry the same schedule fee, and the Medicare benefit is 85% of it.
Item 10962 — Podiatry. Schedule fee $74.55, benefit $63.40.
Item 10960 — Physiotherapy. Schedule fee $74.55, benefit $63.40.
Item 10953 — Exercise physiology. Schedule fee $74.55, benefit $63.40.
Item 10964 — Chiropractic. Schedule fee $74.55, benefit $63.40.
Item 81110 — Exercise physiology, initial individual assessment for group services. Schedule fee $95.65, benefit $81.35.
All five were last indexed on 1 July 2026, when the standard items rose from $72.65 / $61.80. That was a $1.60 increase per service. Nothing has changed since: the current MBS release is the August 2026 one, and these fees sit unchanged within it.
The rules that catch people out
Minimum duration
Items 10953, 10960, 10962 and 10964 each require the service to be at least 20 minutes. Item 81110 requires at least 45 minutes. A shorter service is not billable against these items.
Five services per calendar year, not per item
The cap is a maximum of five services per patient per calendar year across the whole subgroup, not five per discipline. A patient who has had three physiotherapy services has two left for everything else, including podiatry. Telehealth items 93000 and 93013 count towards the same five.
This is the most common billing error we see raised. If a patient is seeing several allied health providers under the same plan, somebody needs to be tracking the count, and it will not be Medicare.
The referral basis
The service must be provided to a patient with a chronic condition and complex care needs who is being managed by their GP under a chronic condition management plan, a GP Management Plan with Team Care Arrangements, or a multidisciplinary care plan. The service itself must be recommended in that plan.
The detailed referral requirements sit in the Health Insurance (Section 3C — Allied Health and Other Primary Health Care Services) Determination 2024, not in the item descriptor.
"EPC" is the old name
These are still widely called EPC items, after the Enhanced Primary Care program. That program was renamed years ago and the current terminology is chronic condition management. The item numbers are unchanged, so an EPC referral and a CDM referral are the same thing in practice.
Where the figures come from
Each item page on MBS Online carries its own "Schedule Fee Updated" date, which is the reliable way to check whether something has moved. The MBS downloads page publishes the full schedule as XML and other formats. In 2026 there have been four releases: January, March, July and August.
Everything else
Medicare is one of five payers we track. For DVA, NDIS and the state workers compensation schemes, start at The Billing Reference, which carries the current status of every schedule in one place.
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