Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 65

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 22 April 2005

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 May 2005.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2004

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2004.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

 

[1] Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 56547

insert

 

56549

Computed tomography scan of colon, if:

 (a) the patient has had an incomplete colonoscopy in the 3 months before the scan; and

 (b) the patient is referred by the specialist or consultant physician who performed the incomplete colonoscopy; and

 (c) the service is not a service to which item 56301, 56307, 56401, 56407, 56409, 56412, 56501, 56507, 56801, 56807 or 57001 applies (R) (K) (Anaes.)

385.00

56551

Computed tomography scan of colon, if:

 (a) the patient is referred by a specialist or consultant physician; and

 (b) the request for scan states that one of the following conditions is present:

 (i) fistulous disease;

 (ii) obstructed colon;

 (iii) megacolon; and

 (c) the service is not a service to which item 56301, 56307, 56401, 56407, 56409, 56412, 56501, 56507, 56801, 56807 or 57001 applies (R) (K) (Anaes.)

385.00

[2] Schedule 1, Part 3, items 57512 and 57515

substitute

 

57512

Hand and wrist, or hand, wrist and forearm, or forearm and elbow, or elbow and humerus (NR)

40.50

57515

Hand and wrist, or hand, wrist and forearm, or forearm and elbow, or elbow and humerus (R)

54.00

Note

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