Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156:section:20a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20A (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 223219–224673

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 (3A) A medicare benefit payable under subsection (3) shall be paid in such manner as the Chief Executive Medicare determines.
 (3B) Without limiting subsection (3A), a determination under that subsection may provide for a medicare benefit that is payable under subsection (3) to be paid, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as are prescribed by the regulations, by means of the electronic transmission of the amount of the benefit to an account kept with a bank.
 (4) A reference in this section to a person by whom a professional service is rendered shall be read as not including a reference to a person (in this subsection referred to as the agent) who renders a professional service (other than a pathology service) on behalf of another person or of an organization, but the agent may, if so authorized by that other person or that organization, on behalf of that other person or that organization, enter into an agreement under subsection (1).
 (4A) Where:
 (a) a pathology service is rendered by or on behalf of an approved pathology practitioner; and
 (b) the approved pathology practitioner is acting, in relation to the rendering of the pathology service, on behalf of another person;
the pathology service shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, not to have been rendered on behalf of that other person.
 (5) An assignment of a medicare benefit shall not be made except in accordance with this section.