Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00183:clause:1_74999:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00183
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 74999 (pt 5/8)
Character Range: 465849–468655

6 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
Modified Monash 7 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
patient episode has the meaning given by clause 1.3.1.
practice location, for the rendering of a pathology service, means the place of practice for which the practitioner by whom, or on whose behalf, the service is rendered, has been allocated a provider number by the Chief Executive Medicare.
prescribed laboratory means a laboratory operated by:
 (a) the Commonwealth; or
 (b) an authority of the Commonwealth; or
 (c) a State or internal Territory; or
 (d) an authority of a State or internal Territory; or
 (e) an Australian tertiary education institution.
receiving APP, for a patient episode, means an approved pathology practitioner in an approved pathology authority who:
 (a) receives a request from a referring APP to render a designated test or tests; and
 (b) renders each test included in the designated test that the referring APP has not performed.
recognised pathologist means:
 (a) a medical practitioner recognised as a specialist in pathology under subsection 3D(1) of the Act; or
 (b) a medical practitioner in relation to whom there is in force a determination under paragraph 3DB(4)(a) or subsection 3E(1) of the Act that the practitioner is recognised as a specialist in pathology.
referring APP, for a patient episode, means an approved pathology practitioner in an approved pathology authority who:
 (a) has received a request to render one or more designated tests; and
 (b) is unable, because of the lack of facilities in, or expertise or experience of the staff of, the laboratory of the authority, to render one or more of the tests included in the designated test; and
 (c) requests a receiving APP in another approved pathology authority to render:
 (i) the test or tests that the approved pathology practitioner is unable to render; or
 (ii) all of the tests that are included in the designated test; and
 (d) renders each test included in the designated test, other than the test or tests for which the request mentioned in paragraph (c) is made.
request, received by an approved pathology practitioner, includes a request for a pathologist‑determinable service to which subsection 16A(6) of the Act applies.
residential aged care facility has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
separately identified specimen means an individual specimen collected, identified so that it is clearly distinguished from any other specimen, and sent for testing by or on behalf of the treating practitioner responsible for the procedure in which the specimen was collected.
serial examinations means a series of examinations requested on one occasion whether or not:
 (a) the materials are received on different