Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 17
Character Range: 155470–156231

17  Medicare benefits not payable in respect of certain medical expenses
 (1) A medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service if:
 (a) the medical expenses in respect of that service have been paid, or are payable, to a recognized hospital;
 (b) the medical practitioner who rendered the service was acting on behalf of an organization that was, when the service was rendered, an organization prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph;
 (c) any part of the service was rendered on the premises of an organization that was, when the service was rendered, an organization referred to in paragraph (b); or
 (d) any amount has been paid, or is payable, in respect of the service in accordance with a scheme to which section 42B applies.