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Assurance in Aboriginal Medical Services Program, funded by the Department of Health as a program to provide education, training, quality assurance, quality control and on-going support services for point of care diabetes testing in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and Aboriginal Medical Services.

    relevant service means a health service, as defined in subsection 3C(8) of the Act, that is specified in the Schedule.

    Note Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in this Determination have the same meanings as in the Act—see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

    (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, in this Determination a reference to a provision of the Act or regulations made under the Act as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.

5. Circumstances where this Determination applies

This Determination applies to a relevant service only where all of the following circumstances apply:

         (a) the service is rendered by or on behalf of a medical practitioner;

         (b) the practitioner referred to in paragraph (a), or the organisation for which the practitioner works, is participating in the QAAMS Program; and

         (c) the service is provided in accordance with that Program; and

         (d) the practitioner referred to in paragraph (a) has determined the service to be necessary for his or her patient.

6. Treatment of a relevant service

    A relevant service shall be treated as if:

         (a) it were both a professional service and a medical service for the purposes of the provisions of the Act, the National Health Act 1953, the Health Insurance Regulations 2018 and the National Health Regulations 2016 that make provision in respect of professional services or medical services, other than provisions that make provision for pathology services specifically; and

         (b) there were an item in the pathology services table that related to the relevant service and specified in respect of the service a fee in relation to a State, being the fee specified in the Schedule in relation to the State specified.

Schedule -  Specified health services

Group P9— Simple Basic Pathology Tests
Item                                    Description                                                                                                                                                                                 Fee ($)