Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086:schedule:1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 819000–821918

Schedule 1—General medical services table

Part 5—Therapeutic procedures

Division 5.1—Preliminary

5.1.1  Restriction on items in this Part—services connected with provision of pain pump for post‑surgical pain management
  An item in Group T1, T2, T3, T4, T6, T7, T8, T9 or T10 does not apply to a service described in the item if the service is provided at the same time as, or in connection with, the provision of a pain pump for post‑surgical pain management.

Division 5.2—Group T1: Miscellaneous therapeutic procedures

5.2.1  Meaning of comprehensive hyperbaric medicine facility
  In items 13015, 13020, 13025 and 13030:
comprehensive hyperbaric medicine facility means a separate hospital area that, on a 24‑hour basis:
 (a) is equipped and staffed so that it is capable of providing to a patient:
 (i) hyperbaric oxygen therapy at a treatment pressure of at least 2.8 atmospheric pressure absolute (180 kilopascal gauge pressure); and
 (ii) mechanical ventilation and invasive cardiovascular monitoring within a monoplace or multiplace chamber for the duration of the hyperbaric treatment; and
 (b) is under the direction of at least one medical practitioner who is rostered, and immediately available, to the facility during the facility's ordinary working hours if the practitioner:
 (i) is a specialist with training in diving and hyperbaric medicine; or
 (ii) holds a Diploma of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society; and
 (c) is staffed by:
 (i) at least one medical practitioner with training in diving and hyperbaric medicine who is present in the facility and immediately available at all times when patients are being treated at the facility; and
 (ii) at least one registered nurse with specific training in hyperbaric patient care to the published standards of the Hyperbaric Technicians and Nurses Association, who is present during hyperbaric oxygen therapy; and
 (d) has admission and discharge policies in operation.

5.2.2  Meaning of embryology laboratory services
  In items 13200 and 13201:
embryology laboratory services includes:
 (a) egg recovery from aspirated follicular fluid; and
 (b) semen preparation; and
 (c) insemination; and
 (d) monitoring of fertilisation and embryo development; and
 (e) preparation of gametes or embryos for transfer or freezing.

5.2.3  Meaning of treatment cycle
  In clause 5.2.4 and items 13200 to 13209, 13215 and 13218:
treatment cycle, for a patient, means a series of treatments for the patient that:
 (a) begins:
 (i) if treatment with superovulatory drugs is given—on the day on which that treatment begins; or
 (ii) if treatment with superovulatory drugs is not given—on the first day of a menstrual cycle of the patient; and
 (b) ends:
 (i) if a service described in item 13212, 13215 or 13221 is provided in connection with the series of treatments—on the day after the day on which the last of those