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of treatment is that it must be provided by a podiatric surgeon who holds specialist registration in the specialty of podiatric surgery under the National Law.

9. Treatments provided by allied health professionals
     (1) If the treatment is a service within a field mentioned in section 12 of the Health Insurance Regulations 2018 as in force from time to time, the standard is that the treatment within that field must be provided by an allied health professional who is qualified in that field.
     (2) In subrule (1), an allied health professional will be qualified in the field if he or she meets the qualification requirements for a service within that field as specified in Schedule 1 of the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2007 or if that instrument is repealed and remade, with or without modifications, the remade instrument.
     (3) If the treatment is provided by an allied health professional practising in a field not mentioned in subrule (1), the standard is that the allied health professional must be a member of a professional organisation which covers health care providers who provide that type of treatment and which is an ordinary member of Allied Health Professions Australia Ltd or any successor organisation.

10. Treatments provided by other health care providers
If the treatment is provided by a health care provider who is not referred to in subrule 7(1) or rule 8 or 9, the standard for that treatment is that the health care provider providing the treatment must be a member of a professional organisation which covers health care providers who provide that type of treatment (the profession) and which:
(a) is a national entity which has membership requirements for the profession; and
(b) provides assessment of the health care provider in terms of the appropriate level of training and education required to practise in that profession; and
(c) administers a continuing professional development scheme in which the health care provider is required, as a condition of membership, to participate; and
(d) maintains a code of conduct which the health care provider must uphold in order to continue to be a member; and
(e) maintains a formal disciplinary procedure, which includes a process to suspend or expel members, and an appropriate complaints resolution procedure.

11. Premises where treatments are provided
If a treatment is provided in a State or Territory where a law of that State or Territory requires the premises in which the treatment is provided to have a permission or approval to provide a treatment of that kind, the standard for the treatment is that the premises must have the permission or approval under that law.

Notes

The Private Health Insurance (Accreditation) Rules 2011 as shown in