Hi, I don't think that is true - the budget papers say it's all IVF item numbers:

Medicare Benefits Schedule — capping Extended Medicare Safety Net benefits for items with excessive fees

The Government will introduce a cap on Medicare benefits payable under the Extended Medicare Safety Net for a range of items with excessive fees, including to all assisted reproductive technology items and items for treatment of varicose veins, the injection of a therapeutic substance into the eye, hair transplants and a cataract surgery item. The caps will take effect from 1 January 2010.

In 2008, expenditure on the Extended Medicare Safety Net was $414.1 million, an increase of 29.7 per cent from the previous year. The items to be capped accounted for around 28 per cent of all expenditure on the Extended Medicare Safety Net in 2008 and the expenditure on these items has grown at an average rate of approximately 50 per cent per year for the past two years.

There is evidence that the Extended Medicare Safety Net has enabled some doctors to charge excessive fees resulting in windfalls being paid by taxpayers through Medicare. The cap will encourage patients whose doctors charge excessive fees to seek other providers who charge more reasonable fees. The Extended Medicare Safety Net was introduced in the 2003‑04 Budget.

This measure will provide savings of $257.9 million over four years.

Medicare Benefits Schedule — capping Extended Medicare Safety Net benefits for items with excessive fees — obstetrics services

The Government will introduce a cap on Medicare benefits payable under the Extended Medicare Safety Net for a range of items with excessive fees including all obstetric items and some ultrasound items related to pregnancy. At the same time, the scheduled fees for the obstetrics items will also be increased from 1 January 2010, benefiting patients particularly in rural and regional areas.

The Extended Medicare Safety Net was introduced in the 2003‑04 Budget. In 2008, expenditure on the Extended Medicare Safety Net was $414.1 million, an increase of 29.7 per cent from the previous year, with obstetrics‑related items accounting for 30 per cent of all expenditure.

There is evidence that the Extended Medicare Safety Net has enabled some doctors to charge excessive fees, resulting in windfalls being paid by taxpayers through Medicare. The cap will encourage patients whose doctors charge excessive fees to seek other providers who charge more reasonable fees.

The capping of the obstetric items will achieve savings of $351.3 million over four years and the increase in schedule fees will cost the Government $157.6 million over four years. The measure will provide net savings of $193.7 million over four years.

See also the related savings measure titled Medicare Benefits Schedule — capping Extended Medicare Safety Net benefits for items with excessive fees and Improving Maternity Services Package in the Health and Aging portfolio.