MBS Descriptor for TCA

Team Care Arrangements (723 or 92025)

When coordinating the development of Team Care Arrangements (TCAs), the General Practitioner must:

1. consult with at least two collaborating providers, each of whom will provide a different kind of treatment or service to the patient, and one of whom may be another medical practitioner, when making arrangements for the multidisciplinary care of the patient
2. prepare a document that describes:
   1. treatment and service goals for the patient
   2. treatment and services that collaborating providers will provide to the patient
   3. actions to be taken by the patient
   4. arrangements to review (i), (ii) and (iii) by a date specified in the document
3. explain the steps involved in the development of the arrangements to the patient and the patient’s carer (if any, and if the practitioner considers it appropriate and the patient agrees)
4. discuss with the patient the collaborating providers who will contribute to the development of the TCAs and provide treatment and services to the patient under those arrangements
5. record the patient’s agreement to the development of TCAs
6. give copies of the relevant parts of the document to the collaborating providers
7. offer a copy of the document to the patient and the patient’s carer (if any, and if the practitioner considers it appropriate and the patient agrees)
8. add a copy of the document to the patient’s medical records