Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00195:reg:71
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00195
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 71
Character Range: 82138–84243

71  Medical practitioners rendering diagnostic imaging services—other records of services
 (1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 23DS(1) of the Act.
 (2) A medical practitioner who renders a diagnostic imaging service (the providing practitioner) must prepare and maintain a record of the service.
 (3) The record of each diagnostic imaging service rendered must include the following:
 (a) a copy of a report of the service by the providing practitioner;
 (b) if the service is rendered in the circumstances mentioned in subsection 16B(8) of the Act (emergencies)—the nature of the emergency;
 (c) if the service is rendered in the circumstances mentioned in subsection 16B(9) of the Act (lost requests)—the date and manner of confirmation that the request had been made as mentioned in paragraph 16B(9)(b) of the Act;
 (d) if the service is rendered in the circumstances mentioned in subsection 16B(10A) of the Act (substituted services):
 (i) the date that the providing practitioner consulted with the person who made the subsection 16B(1) request; or
 (ii) if the providing practitioner did not so consult—the steps that the providing practitioner took to consult.
 (4) If a diagnostic imaging procedure is performed, as part of an ultrasound service, by a registered sonographer under the supervision, or at the direction, of the providing practitioner, the report mentioned in paragraph (3)(a) must include the name of the registered sonographer.
 (5) The records must be kept in a manner that enables information to be retrieved using the name of the person in relation to whom the service was rendered and the date on which the service was rendered.
 (6) In this section:
registered sonographer means a person whose name is entered on the register of sonographers maintained by the Chief Executive Medicare.
Note: Maintaining a register of sonographers is a function of the Chief Executive Medicare under section 32 of the Human Services (Medicare) Regulations 2017.
ultrasound service means a service specified in an item in Group I1 in the diagnostic imaging services table.