Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00214:clause:1_64995:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00214
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 64995 (pt 2/8)
Character Range: 425288–428243

Australian Statistician, as existing on 1 July 2020.
ASGC 2010 means the July 2010 edition of the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) (ABS catalogue number 1216.0), published by the Australian Statistician, as existing on 1 July 2020.
bulk‑billed: a diagnostic imaging 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 medical practitioner by whom, or on whose behalf, the service is provided, the person's right to the payment of the medicare benefit; and
 (ii) the medical practitioner accepts the assignment in full payment of the medical practitioner's fee for the service provided.
care recipient has the meaning given by the general medical services table.
Commonwealth concession card holder has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1.
comprehensive facility means a facility where all of the following services are performed (whether or not other services are also performed):
 (a) PET;
 (b) computed tomography;
 (c) diagnostic ultrasound;
 (d) medical oncology;
 (e) radiation oncology;
 (f) surgical oncology;
 (g) X‑ray.
comprehensive practice means a medical practice, or a radiology department of a hospital, that provides X‑ray, ultrasound and computed tomography services (whether or not it provides other services).
computed tomography or CT means a service performed (with or without intravenous contrast) using a detector:
 (a) that is coupled to an X‑ray tube that emits a finely collimated X‑ray beam as it rotates within a gantry around a patient either in incremental or helical manner; and
 (b) that receives a series of data profiles depicting the degree of absorption of the X‑ray beam, which are transformed into a cross‑sectional image after the application of complex algorithms.
cone beam computed tomography means a service performed on a rotating gantry to which an X‑ray source and a 2‑dimensional flat panel detector are fixed that produces multiple sequential planar projection images in a single revolution around the patient, which are reconstructed into a 3‑dimensional image.
consultation has the meaning given by clause 1.2.21.
CT: see computed tomography.
eligible provider, for an MRI or MRA service, has the meaning given by clause 2.5.4.
exemption period of an exemption means the period mentioned in paragraph 1.2.8(2)(a) (as extended or further extended under clause 1.2.10 if applicable).
FDG means 18F‑fluorodeoxyglucose.
(H) has the meaning given by subclause 1.2.15(3).
highest fee has the meaning given by clause 1.2.21.
Inner Regional Australia means a Remoteness Area classified as Inner Regional Australia under the ASGC 2006.
JNMCAC means the Joint Nuclear Medicine Credentialling and Accreditation Committee of the RACP and RANZCR.
maximum extended life age has the meaning given by subclause 1.2.2(3).
Modified Monash 1 area means