Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulation 2012

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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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F2012L02094

26 October 2012 - 30 November 2012

Table of contents

1 Name of regulation
2 Commencement
3 Repeal
4 Dictionary
5 Pathology services table
- Schedule 1 Pathology services table
  - Part 1 Preliminary
1.1.1 Abbreviations
1.2.1 Precedence of items
1.2.2 Circumstances in which services rendered following 2 requests to be taken to have been rendered following one request
1.2.3 Services to which clause 1.2.2 does not apply
1.2.4 Referral of designated tests by one pathology practitioner to another
1.2.5 Items not to be split
1.2.6 Certain pathology services to be treated as one service
1.2.7 Meaning of general practitioner and set of pathology services
1.2.8 Satisfying requirements described in pathology service
- Part 2 Services and fees
2.1.1 Services to which clause 1.2.2 does not apply
2.1.2 Item taken to refer only to the first service of a particular kind
2.2.1 Creatinine ratios
2.2.2 Services to which clause 1.2.2 does not apply
2.2.3 Limitation on certain items
2.2.4 Serum B12 and red cell folate testing
2.2.5 Thyroid function testing
2.2.6 Limitation on certain items
2.2.7 Nutritional and toxicity metals testing
2.3.1 Meaning of serial examinations or cultures
2.3.2 Antigen detection
2.3.3 Investigation for hepatitis serology
2.3.4 Limitation on certain items
2.3.5 Hepatitis C viral RNA testing
2.4.1 Limitation on certain items
2.4.2 Tests in Group P4 relating to antibodies
2.4.3 HLA-B27 typing
2.4.4 Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody tests
2.5.1 Tests on biopsy material
2.6.1 Tests on biopsy material
2.7.1 Haemochromatosis testing
2.7.2 HLA-B27 typing
2.8.1 Limitation on item 73523
2.10.1 Items in Group P10 (Patient episode initiation) not to apply in certain circumstances
2.11.1 Items in Group P11 not to apply in certain circumstances
2.11.2 Application of an item in Group P11 to a service excludes certain other items
2.11.3 Circumstances in which an item in Group P11 does not apply
2.12.1 Application of items 74990 and 74991
- Part 3 Abbreviations
- Part 4 Complexity levels for histopathology items
Dictionary

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulation 2012

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