Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2004

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Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

This item is authorised by the following title:

Health Insurance Act 1973

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F2004B00351

29 October 2004 - 30 April 2005

This instrument was backcaptured in accordance with Section 36 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003

Table of contents

1 Name of Regulations
2 Commencement
3 Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2003 — repeal
4 Definitions
5 Pathology services table
- Schedule 1 Table of pathology services
- Part 1 Prescription of table
1A Prescription of table
- Part 2 Rules of interpretation
1 Interpretation of table
2 Precedence of items
3 Circumstances in which services rendered following 2 requests to be taken to have been rendered following 1 request
4 Services to which rule 3 does not apply
5 Item taken to refer only to the first service of a particular kind
6 Certain items not to apply to a service referred by one pathology practitioner to another
7 Items not to be split
8 Creatinine ratios — Group P2 (Chemical)
9 Thyroid function testing
10 Meaning of serial examinations or cultures
11 Investigation for hepatitis serology
12 Tests in Group P4 (Immunology) relating to antibodies
13 Tests on biopsy material — Group P5 (Tissue pathology) and Group P6 (Cytology)
14 Items in Groups P10 (Patient episode initiation) and P11 (Specimen referred) not to apply in certain circumstances
15 Application of an item in Group P11 (Specimen referred) to a service excludes certain other items
16 Circumstances in which an item in Group P11 (Specimen referred) does not apply
17 Abbreviations
18 Certain pathology services to be treated as 1 service
19 Hepatitis C viral RNA testing
20 Haemochromatosis testing
21 Serum B12 and red cell folate testing
22 Nutritional and toxicity metals testing
23 Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody tests
24 Satisfying requirements described in pathology service
- Part 3 Services and fees
- Part 4 Abbreviations
- Part 5 Complexity levels for histopathology items

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