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"MBS" and "Medicare Benefits Schedule" mean, in the context of amounts payable for treatment under the Principles, a Fee Schedule, and in any other context means:

(a) Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance Act 1973 as substituted by regulations made under subsection 4(2) of that Act; and

(b) Schedule 1A to the Health Insurance Act 1973 as substituted by regulations made under subsection 4(2) of that Act; and

(c) the table of diagnostic imaging services prescribed under subsection 4AA(1) of that Act as in force from time to time.

     Note: an example of where "Medicare Benefits Schedule" is used in a non‑payment context is paragraph 4.2.1.

    "medical practitioner" has the same meaning as "medical practitioner" has in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

    "medical specialist" means a medical practitioner who is recognised as a consultant physician or as a specialist, in the appropriate specialty, for the purposes of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

    "medicare benefit" has the meaning it has in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

"medicare program" has the meaning it has in the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973.

    "member" has the meaning it has in the Act save that it includes former member and a person with a DRCA disability.

    "Memorandum of Understanding of 1995" means the Memorandum of Understanding between the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Repatriation Commission and the Australian Medical Association Ltd, relating to the provision of medical services by Local Medical Officers to entitled persons, dated 10 December 1995.

       "MHC assessment agency" means a person to whom the Commission has delegated its power to:

       (a) assess whether a person needs:

       (i) a Home Care service (category A); or
       (ii) a Home Care service (category B); or
       (iii) a Home Care service (category C;

              under the MRCA Home Care Program; and

       (b) allocate a service in (a) to an approved provider.

"minor procedure" means a surgical procedure that:

(a) does not involve hospitalisation or theatre fees; and

(b) is of a type that is undertaken routinely in doctors' and specialists' rooms; and

(c) does not require general anaesthesia; and

(d) is not undertaken in a private day facility centre.

     "MPPPs" means the MRCA Private Patient Principles determined by the Commission under paragraph 286(1(b) of the Act.

    "MRCA Access Payment" means the amount set out in the DVA document entitled "Department of Veterans' Affairs Fee Schedules for Medical Services" referred to in Schedule 1 and called the "MRCA Access Payment" — being an additional amount payable by the Department to a general practitioner for a medical service provided by the general practitioner to an entitled person in accordance with these Principles and the Notes for