Contents
1 Name of Determination 3
2 Commencement 3
3 Interpretation 3
4 Health Practitioners 3
5 Professions 3
Schedule 1 Practitioners and Professions for the purposes of the Professional
Services Review 4
This Determination is the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review - Allied Health and Others) Determination 2012.
This Determination commences on 1 January 2013.
In this Determination:
the Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.
the Schedule means the Schedule to this Determination.
Note Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in this Determination have the same meanings as in the Act—see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
For the purposes of subsection 81(1A)(a) of the Act, a health professional listed in Part A of Schedule 1 is a “practitioner".
For the purposes of subsection 81(1A)(b) of the Act, a vocation engaged in by a health professional of a kind listed in Part B of Schedule 1 is a “profession”.
Schedule 1 Practitioners and Professions for the purposes of the Professional Services Review
| Item | Practitioners/Profession |
| | |
| | PART A – PRACTITIONERS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES REVIEW |
| 1 | Audiologists |
| 2 | Diabetes educators |
| 3 | Dieticians |
| 4 | Exercise physiologists |
| 5 | Mental health nurses |
| 6 | Occupational therapists |
| 7 | Psychologists |
| 8 | Social workers |
| 9 | Speech pathologists |
| 10 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners |
| 11 | Aboriginal health workers |
| 12 | Orthoptists |
| | |
| | PART B – PROFESSIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES REVIEW |
| 1 | Audiology |
| 2 | Diabetes education |
| 3 | Dietetics |
| 4 | Exercise physiology |
| 5 | Mental health nursing |
| 6 | Psychology |
| 7 | Occupational therapy |
| 8 | Social work |
| 9 | Speech pathology |
| 10 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services |
| 11 | Aboriginal health worker services |
| 12 | Orthoptic health services |