Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800:reg:18:p30
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 18 (pt 30/42)
Character Range: 231686–234503

this Part, the Commission may provide or accept financial responsibility for the installation of a telephone deaf aid and/or touch phone and the rental of the aid for the first year, in the workplace of an entitled member who has a medically assessed need for these items because of a service injury or service disease.

11.4 Visual aids
11.4.1  The Commission may accept financial liability for visual aids dispensed by an optical dispenser (who may be an optometrist) to an entitled person on the prescription of an ophthalmologist or an optometrist (with a current provider number) where the visual aids have been provided in accordance with:

    (a) the Principles; and

         (b) Notes for Allied Health Providers (Section 1 General Information and Section 2(h)(as section 2(h) affects optometrists and optical dispensers)); and

         (c) the DVA document entitled "Pricing Schedule for Visual Aids", referred to in Schedule 1.

11.4.2  Visual aids may be prescribed from the DVA document entitled "Pricing Schedule for Visual Aids", referred to in Schedule 1.
11.4.3  The Commission's prior approval is required for the prescription of items not listed in the DVA document entitled "Pricing Schedule for Visual Aids", referred to in Schedule 1, except in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 11.4.6.

11.4.4 Subject to paragraph 11.4.5, in any two year period, the Commission shall not provide an entitled person with:

(a) more than one pair of distance spectacles and one pair of readers; or

         (b) more than one pair of bifocals, trifocals or progressive power lenses.

11.4.5 The Commission will provide an entitled person with renewed lenses before the expiration of two years if:

(a) in the opinion of the treating practitioner, there has been a change in;

(i) the person's refraction; or

(ii) the condition of the person's eyes,

that necessitates new lenses; or

(b) there has been accidental loss or breakage.

11.4.6  If an entitled person chooses spectacle frames or lenses that differ from those listed in the DVA document entitled "Pricing Schedule for Visual Aids", referred to in Schedule 1, or that have not been medically prescribed, the Commission will accept financial responsibility only to the financial limits set out in the schedule.

11.5 Hearing aids
11.5.1 The Commission will approve the supply of a spectacle hearing aid when it is the only type of hearing aid appropriate and the person is entitled to the treatment:

(a) of all injuries or diseases; or

         (b) of deafness that is a service injury or service disease; or

         (c) of a visual defect that is a service injury or service disease and the need for a spectacle hearing aid arises from the person's inability to accommodate spectacles and a separate hearing aid.

11.5.2 Where a person