Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086:clause:1_349
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 349
Character Range: 217323–220743

349                                                                          An interview, lasting more than 75 minutes, of a person other than the patient when the patient is not in attendance, by a consultant physician in the practice of the consultant physician's specialty of psychiatry following referral of the patient to the consultant physician by a referring practitioner, for the purposes of:                                                                                                                                                                                                            238.15
                                                                             (a) initial diagnostic evaluation; or
                                                                             (b) continuing management of the patient;
                                                                             if that service and another service to which this item or any of items 341, 343, 345, 347, 91874 to 91878 and 91882 to 91884 applies have not exceeded 15 services in a calendar year in relation to the patient

Division 2.12—Group A12: Consultant occupational physician attendances to which no other item applies

2.12.1  Restrictions on items in Group A12—attendances by consultant occupational physicians
  Items 385 to 388 apply to an attendance by a consultant occupational physician only if the attendance relates to one or more of the following matters:
 (a) evaluating and assessing a patient's rehabilitation requirements when, in the consultant's opinion, the patient has an accepted medical condition that:
 (i) may be affected by the patient's working environment; or
 (ii) affects the patient's capacity to be employed;
 (b) managing an accepted medical condition that, in the consultant's opinion, may affect a patient's capacity for continued employment, or return to employment, following a non‑compensable accident, injury or ill‑health;
 (c) evaluating and forming an opinion about, including management as the case requires, a patient's medical condition when causation may be related to acute or chronic exposure to scientifically acknowledged environmental hazards or toxins.

2.12.2  Items in Group A12
  This clause sets out items in Group A12.
Note: The fees in Group A12 are indexed in accordance with clause 1.3.1.

Group A12—Consultant occupational physician attendances to which no other item applies
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