1 Name of Determination

This Determination is the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review - Allied Health and Others) Determination 2012.

2 Commencement

This Determination commences on 1 January 2013.

3 Interpretation

In this Determination:

the Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

the Schedule means the Schedule to this Determination.

Note Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in this Determination have the same meanings as in the Act—see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

4 Health Practitioners

For the purposes of subsection 81(1A)(a) of the Act, a health professional listed in Part A of Schedule 1 is a “practitioner".

5 Professions

For the purposes of subsection 81(1A)(b) of the Act, a vocation engaged in by a health professional of a kind listed in Part B of Schedule 1 is a “profession”.

Schedule 1 Practitioners and Professions for the purposes of the Professional Services Review

Item	Practitioners/Profession

	PART A – PRACTITIONERS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES REVIEW
1	Audiologists
2	Diabetes educators
3	Dieticians
4	Exercise physiologists
5	Mental health nurses
6	Occupational therapists
7	Psychologists
8	Social workers
9	Speech pathologists
10	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners
11	Aboriginal health workers
12	Orthoptists

	PART B – PROFESSIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES REVIEW
1	Audiology
2	Diabetes education
3	Dietetics
4	Exercise physiology
5	Mental health nursing
6	Psychology
7	Occupational therapy
8	Social work
9	Speech pathology
10	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services
11	Aboriginal health worker services
12	Orthoptic health services