Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 2)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 85

I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Administrator 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 26 April 2006

MARIE BASHIR

Administrator

By Her 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 2006 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 May 2006.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2005

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2005.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 1, Part 2, rules 19 and 20

substitute

19 CT services — eligible services

 (1) Subject to subrule (2), items 56001 to 57356 apply only to a CT service that is:

 (a) performed under the professional supervision of a specialist in the specialty of diagnostic radiology who is available:

 (i) to monitor and influence the conduct and diagnostic quality of the examination; and

 (ii) if necessary, to personally attend on the patient; and

 (b) reported by a specialist in the specialty of diagnostic radiology.

 (2) Items 56001 to 57356 apply to a CT service which fails to comply with subrule (1) if the service is performed:

 (a) in an emergency; or

 (b) because of medical necessity, in a remote location.

20 CT services — exclusion of attenuation correction and anatomical correlation

  Items 56001 to 57356 do not apply to a CT service that is performed for the purposes of attenuation correction or anatomical correlation of another diagnostic imaging procedure.

[2] Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 33

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33 MRI and MRA services — permissible circumstances for performance

 (1) For rule 31, and subject to subrule (2), a service is performed in a permissible circumstance only if it is:

 (a) performed under the professional supervision of an eligible provider who is available to monitor and influence the conduct and diagnostic quality of the examination, including, if necessary, by personal attendance on the patient; and

 (b) reported by an eligible provider.

 (2) If subrule (1) is not complied with, a service is performed in a permissible circumstance if the service is performed:

 (a) in an emergency; or

 (b) because of medical necessity, in a remote location.

[3] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrules 34 (1) and (2)

omit

rule 33,

insert

subrule 33 (1),

[4] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 39 (3)

omit

[5] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 57350, column 2, paragraph (c)

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[6] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 57351, column 2, paragraph (c)

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[7] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 57355, column 2, paragraph (c)

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[8] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 57356, column 2, paragraph (c)

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[9] Further amendments

Note

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