Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00025:clause:2_81360
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00025
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 81360
Character Range: 235447–238706

81360                                                                                Speech pathology health service provided to a patient who is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent by an eligible speech pathologist if the service is of at least 20 minutes duration and:                                                                                                                                    68.55
                                                                                        (a) a medical practitioner has undertaken a health assessment and identified a need for follow‑up allied health services; or
                                                                                        (b) the patient has:
                                                                                          (i)   a chronic condition;
                                                                                          (ii)  complex care needs being managed by a medical practitioner (other than a specialist or consultant physician) under both a GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangements or, if the patient is a resident of an aged care facility, the patient's medical practitioner has contributed to a multidisciplinary care plan; and
                                                                                          (iii) the service is recommended in the patient's Team Care Arrangements or multidisciplinary care plan as part of the management of the patient's chronic condition and complex care needs;
                                                                                     to a maximum of 10 services (including any services to which this item or any other item in this Group or Subgroup 1 of Group M3 or item 93000, 93013, 93048 or 93061 of the Telehealth and Telephone Determination applies) in a calendar year

Part 7—Services and fees—audiology services (diagnostic)

Division 7.1 – Provisions related to audiology services

7.1.1  Requests for diagnostic audiology services
 (1) This clause applies to items 82300 to 82332 (other than item 82301).
 (2) The request must be in writing and must contain:
 (a) the date of the request; and
 (b) the name of the eligible practitioner who requested the service and either the address of the practitioner's place of practice or the provider number in respect of the practitioner's place of practice; and
 (c) a description of the service which provides sufficient information to identify the service as relating to a particular item mentioned in subclause (1) but need not specify the item number.
 (3) A request may be for the performance of more than one diagnostic audiology service making up a single audiological assessment but cannot be for more than one audiological assessment.

7.1.2  Items in Group M15 for diagnostic audiology services
  This clause sets out items in Group M15.

Group M15 – Diagnostic audiology services
Item                                       Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Fee ($)