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
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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