Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) This section applies to a professional service that is a pathology service.
Requested pathology services
(2) If the service is rendered in accordance with subsections 16A(2) and (3) of the Act, the following particulars are prescribed:
(a) the name of the treating practitioner who requested the service;
(b) if the request was made at a place of practice of the treating practitioner:
(i) the address of the place of practice; or
(ii) if the treating practitioner has been allocated a provider number in respect of the place of practice--the provider number;
(c) if the request was not made at such a place of practice:
(i) the address of any place of practice of the treating practitioner; or
(ii) the provider number of the treating practitioner in respect of any place of practice;
(d) the date on which the treating practitioner determined that the service was necessary.
Pathologist - determinable services
(3) If the service is a pathologist - determinable service that was determined to be necessary by the approved pathology practitioner by whom, or on whose behalf, the service was performed, a prescribed particular is an indication that the service was determined to be necessary by that approved pathology practitioner.
Services rendered by a member of a group of medical practitioners
(4) If the service is rendered in the circumstances described in paragraph 16A(7)(b) of the Act, the following particulars are prescribed:
(a) the name of the treating practitioner who requested the service;
(b) the date on which the treating practitioner made the request.
Initiation of a patient episode by collection of a specimen
(5) If the service is initiation of a patient episode by collection of a specimen, a prescribed particular is an identification of the collection point as follows:
(a) for a collection made at an approved collection centre--the identification number of the centre;
(b) for a collection made at a recognised hospital--the recognised hospital collection point identification number assigned by the Chief Executive Medicare;
(c) for any other collection--"A01".