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Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2020
made under the

Health Insurance Act 1973

Compilation No. 16

Compilation date: 1 March 2025

                Includes amendments: F2025L00092

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2020 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 1 March 2025 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on the Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see the Register for the compiled law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

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Editorial changes

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Modifications

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Self‑repealing provisions

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Contents
1 Name
3 Authority
4 Pathology services table
Schedule 1—Pathology services table
Part 1—Preliminary
Division 1.1—Interpretation
1.1.1 Dictionary
1.1.2 Methodology for services
1.1.3 References in this Schedule to items include items determined under section 3C of the Act
Division 1.2—General application provisions
1.2.1 Restriction on items—precedence
1.2.2 When services rendered following multiple requests are taken to have been rendered following a single request
1.2.3 Services to which clause 1.2.2 does not apply—general
1.2.4 Services to which clause 1.2.2 does not apply—haematology
1.2.5 Services to which clause 1.2.2 does not apply—chemical
1.2.6 Referral of designated tests by one pathology practitioner to another
1.2.7 Items not to be split except as stated in clause 1.2.6
1.2.8 Services in certain sets of services to be treated as individual services
1.2.9 Sets of services for the purposes of clause 1.2.8
1.2.10 Satisfying requirements in descriptions of services
1.2.11 Restriction on items—services rendered with autologous injections of blood or blood products
1.2.12 Restriction on items—services rendered