Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086:clause:1_172:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01086
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 172 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 111422–114944

172                     Professional attendance for the purpose of group therapy lasting at least 1 hour given under the direct continuous supervision of a general practitioner, specialist or consultant physician (other than a consultant physician in the practice of the consultant physician's specialty of psychiatry) involving members of a family and persons with close personal relationships with that family—each group of 4 or more patients  156.80

Division 2.10—Group A7: Acupuncture and non‑specialist practitioner items
Note 1: Various restrictions, limitations and other requirements apply to items in Subgroups 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11 of Group A7. The restrictions, limitations and other requirements are set out in the following Divisions:
(a) for items in Subgroup 5—Division 2.15;
(b) for items in Subgroup 6—Division 2.16;
(c) for items in Subgroup 7—Division 2.17;
(d) for items in Subgroup 9—Division 2.20;
(e) for items in Subgroup 11—Division 2.22.
Note 2: A number of expressions used in Subgroups 6, 7 and 9 of Group A7 are defined in Divisions 2.16, 2.17 and 2.20, including the following:
(a) contribute to a multidisciplinary care plan (see clause 2.16.3);
(b) coordinating a review of team care arrangements (see clause 2.16.5);
(c) multidisciplinary care plan (see clause 2.16.6);
(d) organise and coordinate (see clause 2.16.15);
(e) participate (see clause 2.16.16);
(f) preparing a GP management plan (see clause 2.16.7);
(g) residential medication management review (see clause 2.17.2);
(h) review of a GP mental health treatment plan (see clause 2.20.4).

2.10.1  Restriction on treatment time
  For the purposes of items 193 to 199, treatment time for a medical practitioner does not include the period:
 (a) commencing immediately after the practitioner has completed applying all acupuncture stimuli on or through a patient's skin; and
 (b) ending immediately before the practitioner begins to remove the acupuncture stimuli from the patient;
unless the practitioner personally attends the patient during that period for a consultation related to the condition for which the acupuncture was performed or another consultation.

2.10.1A  Application of items 214 to 220
 (1) Items 214 to 220 apply only to a service provided in the course of a personal attendance by one or more prescribed medical practitioners on a single patient on a single occasion.
 (2) If the professional attendance is provided by one or more prescribed medical practitioners concurrently, each prescribed medical practitioner may claim an attendance fee.
 (3) However, if the personal attendance is not continuous, the occasion on which the service is provided is taken to be the total time of the attendance.

2.10.2  Items in Group A7
  This clause sets out items in Group A7.
Note: The fees in Group A7 are indexed in accordance with clause 1.3.1.

Group A7—Acupuncture and non‑specialist practitioner items
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