Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
REGULATIONS UNDER THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of
the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the
Dated this twenty-seventh day of June 1978.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health
AMENDMENTS OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “ Subject to sub-regulation (4) ” and substituting “ Subject to sub-regulations (4) and (5) ”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “ signed ” (first occurring) and substituting “ personally signed ”; and
(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:
“ (5) A medical practitioner shall be taken not to have referred a patient to a specialist radiologist in respect of an item that relates to a radiographic examination of one or both breasts unless the referral form, in addition to containing the prescribed information concerning the referral, contains—
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Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1975, No. 80 as amended by Statutory Rules 1975, Nos. 118, 125 and 135 (commenced 3 July 1975; disallowed 4 September 1975); 1976, Nos. 202, 214 and 215; and 1977, Nos. 26 and 44.
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(a) a specific request for the service to which the item relates; and
(b) a statement that, for the purposes of the item, there is reason to suspect the presence of malignancy in the breast or breasts because of the past occurrence of breast malignancy in the patient or members of the patient’s family, or because symptoms or indications of malignancy were found on an examination of the patient by a specified medical practitioner, as the case may be.”.
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