Identifying eligible patients

There are criteria to be met for a patient to be eligible for a Heart Health Check. The patient must:

• be 45 years or over (30 years or over for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people)
• have no history of CVD, and
• have not had another health assessment in the last 12 months e.g. MBS items 701, 703, 705,  707 or 715.

Identifying eligible patients

Pen CS – using CAT4

For CAT4 users, the following suite of recipes has been developed to help you identify patients who are eligible for a Heart Health Check. Follow the instructions here in the recipe to extract a specific list.

• Identify patients eligible for the Heart Health Check who are at high risk of CVD due to hypertension or hyperlipidaemia. 
• Identify at-risk patients who have a non-CVD chronic condition and are eligible for both a Heart Health Check and a GP Chronic Disease Management Plan.
• Identify patients eligible for the Heart Health Check who are at low, moderate, or high risk of CVD and have all data recorded for an absolute CVD risk assessment.
• Identify patients eligible for the Heart Health Check who have missing data for an absolute CVD risk assessment.
• Identify female patients who are eligible for the Heart Health Check and have had a diagnosis of gestational diabetes.

Pen CS – using cardiovascular event risk report from CAT4

The CV Event Risk graph displays your data as the % risk of a cardiovascular event in the next five years. Click here for more information.

Pen CS – using the clinical information system (CIS) calculated cardiovascular event risk

The report, which shows CV event risk calculated by the built-in calculator in MedicalDirector and Best Practice, can be found here.

Pen CS – using Topbar

In Topbar, there is an MBS app which can give you prompts if a patient is eligible for an MBS item programmed into the app such as 699 or 177. This can help you identify patients opportunistically.

Click here for more information on the MBS app.
Click here for more information on the MBS app and the Heart Health Check.

POLAR – using the CVD report

There are walkthrough instructions on how to identify patients eligible for the Heart Health Check.

1. Walkthrough – Patients 45+ with no health assessment in the past 12 months
2. Walkthrough – Indigenous patients 30+ with no health assessment in the past 12 months

POLAR users can find these walkthroughs and others here (login required).

Read next ...

Receptionist's guide to the Heart Health Check

<< Back to section overview

Table of contents