Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1) (Cth)

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 772

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, 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 11 April 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

KAY PATTERSON

Minister for Health and Ageing

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2001

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2001.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, Part 3, items 65139 and 65140

omit

[2]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66500, column 2

omit

reflectance meter or electrophoresis)

insert

reflectance meter)

[3]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66626, column 2

substitute

Detection or quantitation or both (not including the detection of nicotine and metabolites in smoking withdrawal programs) of a drug, or drugs, of abuse or a therapeutic drug, on a sample collected from a patient participating in a drug abuse treatment program; but excluding the surveillance of sports people and athletes for performance improving substances; including all tests on blood, urine or other body fluid — each patient episode, to a maximum of 36 episodes in a 12 month period

[4]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66655, column 2

omit

quantitation in the assessment of clinically suspected prostatic disease —

insert

quantitation —

[5]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 69345, column 2

omit

performed on separately collected and identified specimens in any 7 day period —

insert

performed on separately identified specimens, collected at different times, in any 7 day period —

[6]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 73527, column 2

omit

, including serial dilution (if performed)

[7]Schedule 1, Part 5

before

Small bowel, diverticulum 3

insert

Small bowel — biopsy, all sites 4

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2001 No. 281, as amended by 2001 No. 312.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette