Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00183:clause:1_74999:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00183
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 74999 (pt 4/8)
Character Range: 463230–466082

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Part 4—Dictionary

4.1  Dictionary
Note 1: All references in this clause to a provision are references to a provision in this Schedule, unless otherwise indicated.
Note 2: A number of expressions used in this Schedule are defined in the Act, including pathologist‑determinable service.
  In this Schedule:
Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.
approved collection centre has the meaning given by subsection 23DA(1) of the Act.
biopsy material means all tissue received by an approved pathology practitioner:
 (a) from a medical procedure, or set of medical procedures, performed on a patient at the same time; or
 (b) after being expelled spontaneously from a patient.
bulk‑billed: a pathology service is bulk‑billed if:
 (a) a medicare benefit is payable to a person in relation to the service; and
 (b) under an agreement entered into under section 20A of the Act:
 (i) the person assigns to the practitioner by whom, or on whose behalf, the service is rendered, the person's right to the payment of the medicare benefit; and
 (ii) the practitioner accepts the assignment in full payment of the practitioner's fee for the service rendered.
care institution means a place at which residential accommodation, day care or both are made available to:
 (a) disadvantaged children; or
 (b) juvenile offenders; or
 (c) aged persons; or
 (d) chronically ill psychiatric patients; or
 (e) homeless persons; or
 (f) unemployed persons; or
 (g) persons suffering from alcoholism; or
 (h) persons addicted to drugs; or
 (i) physically or mentally handicapped persons;
but does not include:
 (j) a hospital; or
 (k) a residential aged care facility; or
 (l) accommodation for aged persons that is attached to a residential aged care facility or situated within a residential aged care facility complex.
complexity level, for a specimen type mentioned in an item, means the complexity level specified for the specimen type in Part 3.
concessional beneficiary has the same meaning as in Part VII of the National Health Act 1953.
designated area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
designated test has the meaning given by clause 1.2.6.
Modified Monash 2 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
Modified Monash 3 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
Modified Monash 4 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
Modified Monash 5 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table.
Modified Monash 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