Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Nuclear Medicine Services) Amendment Determination 2019
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I, Elizabeth Dowd, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following determination.
Elizabeth Dowd
A/g First Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Health Financing Group
Department of Health
Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Nuclear Medicine Services) Determination 2019
This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Nuclear Medicine Services) Amendment Determination 2019.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. Sections 1 to 4 | Immediately after registration of this instrument |
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1. Schedule 1 | This Schedule is taken to have commenced immediately after commencement of the Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Nuclear Medicine Services) Determination 2019 |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 Section 6 (below the heading)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
(1) Paragraphs 2.4.1(b) and (c) of the diagnostic imaging services table shall have effect as if items in Schedule 1 of this instrument were specified for the purpose of those paragraphs.
2 Schedule 1 (table)
Repeal the table, substitute:
Group I4—Nuclear medicine imaging | ||
Column 1 Item | Column 2 Description | Column 3 Fee ($) |
61311 | Single stress or rest myocardial perfusion study—with PET (R) | 565.30 |
61332 | Combined stress and rest, stress and re‑injection or rest and redistribution myocardial perfusion study, including delayed imaging or re‑injection protocol on a subsequent occasion—with PET (R) | 834.90 |
61333 | Lung perfusion study and lung ventilation study using galligas or 68Ga-MAA, with PET (R) | 443.35 |
61336 | Cerebral perfusion study, with PET (R) | 605.05 |
61337 | Bone study—whole body, with PET, when undertaken, blood flow, blood pool and delayed imaging on a separate occasion (R) | 479.80 |
61341 | Bone study—whole body and PET, with, when undertaken, blood flow, blood pool and delayed imaging on a separate occasion (R) | 600.70 |
61344 | Computed tomography performed at the same time and covering the same body area as positron emission tomography covered by items 61311, 61332, 61333, 61336, 61337 and 61341, for the purpose of anatomic localisation or attenuation correction if no separate diagnostic CT report is issued (R) | 100.00 |