Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

HEALTH INSURANCE (1998Ð99 GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES TABLE) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1999 (No. 2) 1999 No. 17 - SCHEDULE 1

Schedule 1 Amendment of Health Insurance (1998Ð99 General Medical  Services)
Table Regulations 1998 
(regulation 3) (1) Schedule 1, Part 1, after rule 21
insert 21A Qualified sleep medicine practitioner
For items 12203 and 12207, qualified sleep medicine practitioner means:

   (a)  a person who, before 1 March 1999, had been assessed by the
        Credentialling Subcommittee (the Credentialling Subcommittee) of the
        Specialist Advisory Committee in Thoracic and Sleep Medicine of the
        Royal Australasian College of Physicians (the Advisory Committee) as
        having sufficient training and experience in sleep medicine to be
        competent in independent clinical assessment and management of
        patients with respiratory sleep disorders and in reporting sleep
        studies; or

   (b)  for 2 years following assessment Ñ a person who, before 1 March 1999,
        had been assessed by the Credentialling Subcommittee as having
        substantial training or experience in sleep medicine but as requiring
        further specified training or experience in sleep medicine to be
        competent in independent clinical assessment and management of
        patients with respiratory sleep disorders and in reporting sleep
        studies; or

   (c)  a person mentioned in paragraph (b) who has been assessed by the
        Credentialling Subcommittee as having satisfactorily finished the
        training or gained the experience specified for that person; or

   (d)  a person who, after completing at least 12 months' core training,
        including clinical practice in sleep medicine and in reporting sleep
        studies, has attained Level I or Level II of the Advanced Training
        Program in Sleep Medicine of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New
        Zealand and the Australasian Sleep Association; or

   (e)  a person whom the Advisory Committee has recognised, in writing, as
        having training equivalent to the training mentioned in paragraph (d).
        (2) Schedule 1, Part 2, item 12203, paragraph (b)
omit
a consultant physician in thoracic medicine, or a specialist where the
investigation is performed in the sleep laboratory of a recognised hospital;
insert
a qualified sleep medicine practitioner; and (3) Schedule 1, Part 2, item
12207, paragraph (b)
omit
a consultant physician in thoracic medicine, or a specialist where the
investigation is performed in the sleep laboratory of a recognised hospital;
and
insert
a qualified sleep medicine practitioner; and