Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00214:clause:1_7:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00214
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 7 (pt 10/11)
Character Range: 39001–41807

Schedule does not apply to a service mentioned in the item if the service is provided to a patient at the same time as, or in connection with, the harvesting, storage, in vitro processing or injection of non‑haematopoietic stem cells.

Part 2—Services and fees

Division 2.1—Group I1: ultrasound

Subdivision A—General

2.1.1  Restriction on items—ultrasound services
  Items in this Division (except items 55600 and 55603) apply to an ultrasound service only if the diagnostic imaging procedure used in rendering the service is performed:
 (a) by a medical practitioner; or
 (b) on behalf of a medical practitioner by a person whose name is entered on the Register of Sonographers kept by the Chief Executive Medicare.
Note: Maintaining a register of sonographers is a function of the Chief Executive Medicare under section 32 of the Human Services (Medicare) Regulations 2017.

2.1.2  Restriction on items—R‑type ultrasound services
 (1) Items in this Division (except items 55600 and 55603) marked with the symbol (R) apply to an ultrasound service (the eligible service) only if the service is performed:
 (a) under the supervision of a specialist or a consultant physician in the practice of the specialist's or consultant physician's specialty who is available:
 (i) to monitor and influence the conduct and diagnostic quality of the examination; and
 (ii) if necessary, to attend on the patient personally; or
 (b) under the supervision of a practitioner who:
 (i) is not a specialist or consultant physician; and
 (ii) meets the requirement of subclause (2); and
 (iii) is available to monitor and influence the conduct and diagnostic quality of the examination and, if necessary, to attend on the patient personally; or
 (c) in the circumstance mentioned in subclause (3), and under the supervision of a practitioner who is available:
 (i) to monitor and influence the conduct and diagnostic quality of the examination; and
 (ii) if necessary, to attend on the patient personally; or
 (d) if paragraph (a), (b) or (c) cannot be complied with:
 (i) in an emergency; or
 (ii) in a location that is not less than 30 kilometres by the most direct road route from another practice where services that comply with paragraph (a) or (b) are available.
 (2) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii), the requirement is that, between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 1999, at least 50 services were rendered by or on behalf of the practitioner at the location where the eligible service was rendered, and the rendering of those services entitled payment of medicare benefits.
 (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), the circumstance is that, between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 1999, at least 50 services were rendered in nursing homes or patients' residences by or on behalf of the practitioner, and