Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 4) (Cth)

Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 4)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No. 188

I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Deputy for the 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 28 June 2007

MARIE BASHIR

Deputy for the Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 4).

Commencement

These Regulations commence as follows:

(a)on the day after they are registered — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;

(b)on 1 July 2007 — Schedule 2.

Amendment of Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2006

Schedules 1 and 2 amend the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2006.

Schedule 1 Amendment commencing on the day after registration

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 36, table 2, after item 6

insert

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Schedule 2 Amendments commencing on 1 July 2007

(regulation 3)

Schedule 1, Part 3, items 56549 and 56551

omit

Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 56547

insert

56552

Computed tomography — scan of colon for exclusion of colorectal neoplasia in symptomatic or high risk patients if:

(a) the patient has had an incomplete colonoscopy in the 3 months before the scan; and

(b) the date of incomplete colonoscopy is set out on the request for scan; 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.)

600.00

56554

Computed tomography — scan of colon for exclusion of colorectal neoplasia in symptomatic or high risk patients if:

(a) the request for scan states that 1 of the following contraindications to colonoscopy is present:

(i) suspected perforation of the colon;

(ii) complete or high‑grade obstruction that will not allow passage of the scope; and

(b) the service must not be a service to which item 56301, 56307, 56401, 56407, 56409, 56412, 56501, 56507, 56801, 56807 or 57001 applies (R) (K) (Anaes.)

600.00

Note

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