Health Insurance Determination HS/5/1997 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance Determination HS/5/1997

I, MICHAEL RICHARD LEWIS WOOLDRIDGE, Minister for Health and Family Services, make this determination under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 3^rd NOVEMBER 1997.

Michael Wooldridge

Minister for Health and Family Services

Citation

1.This determination may be cited as the Health Insurance

Determination HS/5/1997.

Commencement

2.This determination is taken to have commenced on 1 November 1997.

NOTE: A determination made under subsection 3C(1) may be expressed to have effect from a day earlier that the day on which the determination was made (see s 3C(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973).

Health Services

3.    (1)          A health service mentioned in the Schedule is treated as if it were a professional service and a medical service for the following provisions:

(a)section 4 of the National Health Act 1953;

(b)subsections 3(1), 3(5B) and sections 8, 9, 10, 10A, 14, 16B, 16C, 17, 18, 19, 19A, 19B, 19C, 19CA, 19CB, 19D, 19DA, 20, 20A, 20B, 23DQ, 23DR, 23DS, 23DZF, 23DZG, 23DZH and 23DZJ and Part VAA, VA, VB and VII of the Health Insurance Act 1973;

(c) regulations 13, 19, 20, 27 and 28 of the Health Insurance Regulations.

(2)     A health service mentioned in the Schedule is also treated as if there were an item prescribed in the diagnostic imaging services table:

(a)that is related to that health service; and

(b)specified for that health service the fee specified in Column 3 opposite to that health service.

Revocation

4.                The Health Insurance Determination HS/6/96 made on 24 December 1996 under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 is revoked.

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SCHEDULE

Column 1      Column 2                  Column 3

Item No.                            Health Service             Fee ($)

55208                   DUPLEX SCANNING involving B mode ultrasound    170.35

imaging and integrated Doppler flow measurement by

spectral analysis of cavernosal artery of the penis following

intracavernosal administration of a vasoactive agent,

performed during the period of pharmacological activity of

the injected agent to confirm a diagnosis of vascular

aetiology for impotence, where:

(A)Dr Christopher McMahon, of Hemsley House, St Lukes Hospital, 20 Roslyn Street, Potts Point, NSW 2011, (the medical practitioner)

attends the patient in person at the practice location  

where the service is rendered, immediately prior to

or for a period during the rendering of the service,

and that practitioner interprets the results and

prepares a report, not being a service associated

with a service to which an item in Group I1 applies;

and

(B)the patient is referred for this service to the

     medical practitioner by another medical practitioner (R)

55211                  DUPLEX SCANNING involving B mode ultrasound imaging            170.35

and integrated Doppler flow measurement by spectral analysis

of cavernosal tissue of the penis to confirm a diagnosis and,

where indicated, assess the progress and management of:

(a)priapism; or

(b)fibrosis of any type; or

(c)fracture of the tunica; or

(d)arteriovenous malformations;

where:

(A)the medical practitioner attends

the patient in person at the practice location where the

service is rendered, immediately prior to or for a period

during the rendering of the service, and that practitioner

interprets the results and prepares a report, not being a

service associated with a service to which an item in

Group I1 applies; and

(B)the patient is referred for this service to the

medical practitioner by another medical practitioner (R)