Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00025:reg:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00025
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 6524–9799

4  Interpretation
 (1) In this instrument:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia means that board established under section 31 of the National Law.
Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.
admitted patient means a patient who is receiving a service that is provided:
 (a) as part of an episode of hospital treatment; or
 (b) as part of an episode of hospital‑substitute treatment in respect of which the person to whom the treatment is provided chooses to receive a benefit from a private health insurer.
allied health professional, for the provision of an allied health service, means a person:
 (a) who meets the qualification requirements set out in Schedule 1 for the provision of the service; and
 (b) whose name is entered in the register, kept by the Chief Executive Medicare, of allied health professionals who are qualified to provide a service of that kind.
Note: Allied health professionals in relation to the provision of a focussed psychological strategies health service are subject to the requirements of section 10.
allied health service means:
 (a) a health service of a kind prescribed by section 12 of the Health Insurance Regulations 2018; or
 (b) a health service that is an optometry treatment service;
that is specified in an item in Schedule 2.
case conference service means a service to which item 10955, 10957, 10959, 80176, 80177, 80178, 82001, 82002 or 82003 applies, which is one of the following health services:
                   (a)  Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander health service;
                   (b)  audiology service;
                   (c)  chiropractic service;
                   (d)  diabetes education service;
                   (e)  dietetics service;
                   (f)  exercise physiology service;
                   (g)  focussed psychological strategies service;
                   (h)  mental health service;
           (i)  nurse practitioner service;
           (j)  occupational therapy service;
           (k)  orthoptics service;
           (l)  osteopathy service;
          (m)  physiotherapy service;
                   (n)  podiatry service;
                   (o)  psychological therapy service;
                   (p)  psychology service;
                   (q)  speech pathology service.
Chiropractic Board of Australia means that board established under section 31 of the National Law.
clinically relevant service means a service rendered by an allied health professional that is generally accepted in the relevant allied health profession (as the case may be) as being necessary for the appropriate treatment of the patient to whom it is rendered.
course of assessment means:
 (a) for complex neurodevelopmental disorder services—up to 4 services to which any of items 82000, 82005, 82010, 82030 or items 93032, 93033, 93040 and 93041 of the Telehealth and Telephone Determination applies provided, on referral by a consultant physician specialising in the practice of the consultant physician's field of psychiatry or paediatrics, by any of the following persons:
 (i) an eligible audiologist;
 (ii) an eligible occupational therapist;
 (iii) an eligible optometrist;
 (iv) an eligible orthoptist;
 (v) an eligible physiotherapist;
 (vi) an eligible psychologist;