Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:23dk:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23DK (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 281723–284461

23DK  Request forms and confirmation forms
 (1) Where a pathology service has been rendered by or on behalf of an approved pathology practitioner pursuant to a request made or confirmed in accordance with section 16A, the approved pathology practitioner shall retain the written request or the written confirmation of the request for the period of 2 years commencing on the day on which the service was rendered.
 (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to the approved pathology practitioner in relation to a particular pathology service if:
 (a) at the time the service was rendered, he or she was employed by an approved pathology authority; and
 (b) he or she is no longer employed by the approved pathology authority; and
 (c) before ceasing to be so employed, he or she notified the Chief Executive Medicare in writing of the place where the written request, or written confirmation of the request, relating to the service is stored and the approved pathology authority who is retaining it;
but the approved pathology authority shall retain the written request, or written confirmation of the request, until the end of the period referred to in subsection (1).
 (2) Where:
 (a) a request is made for a pathology service or pathology services in relation to a person by the practitioner, participating midwife or participating nurse practitioner who is the treating practitioner in relation to the person for the purposes of section 16A;
 (b) the request is in writing or is confirmed in writing; and
 (c) the approved pathology practitioner who received the request (the relevant pathologist) makes a request to another approved pathology practitioner for that service, or for a service included in those services, in relation to that person;
the relevant pathologist shall retain the written request or the written confirmation of the request for the period of 2 years commencing on the day on which the request referred to in paragraph (a) is made.
 (2A) Subsection (2) does not apply to the relevant pathologist in relation to a request if:
 (a) at the time the request is made, he or she was employed by an approved pathology authority; and
 (b) he or she is no longer employed by the approved pathology authority; and
 (c) before ceasing to be so employed, he or she notified the Chief Executive Medicare in writing of the place where the written request, or written confirmation of the request, relating to the service is stored and the approved pathology authority who is retaining it;
but the approved pathology authority shall retain the written request, or written confirmation of the request, until the end of the period referred to in subsection (2).
 (3) An approved pathology practitioner or an approved pathology authority