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Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulation 2013
1 Schedule 1 (items 55735 to 55739)
Omit ", female".
2 Schedule 1 (items 63457, 63458, 63464 and 63467)
Omit "woman", substitute "person".
Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2013
3 Schedule 1 (Group A18 table, subheading Subgroup 1 )
Repeal the subheading, substitute:
Subgroup 1--Taking of a cervical smear from an unscreened or significantly underscreened person
4 Schedule 1 (Group A19 table, subheading Subgroup 1)
Repeal the subheading, substitute:
Subgroup 1--Taking of a cervical smear from an unscreened or significantly underscreened person
5 Subclause 2.22.1(3) of Schedule 1 (definition of non-directive pregnancy support counselling )
Omit "woman" (wherever occurring), substitute "person".
6 Schedule 1 (item 4001)
Omit all the words from and including "woman" to and including "that pregnancy", substitute:
person who:
(a) is currently pregnant; or
(b) has been pregnant in the 12 months preceding the provision of the first service to which this item or item 81000, 81005 or 81010 applies in relation to that pregnancy
7 Schedule 1 (items 13215 and 13218)
Omit "female reproductive system", substitute "uterus or fallopian tubes".
8 Schedule 1 (item 13506)
Omit " , Minnesota, Sengstaken-Blakemore or similar,".
9 Schedule 1 (item 20791)
After "for", insert "bariatric surgery in".
10 Schedule 1 (item 20900)
Omit "(including biopsy of male genital system)".
11 Schedule 1 (item 20940)
Omit "labia,".
12 Schedule 1 (item 30084)
Omit " with a Jamshidi needle or similar device".
13 Schedule 1 (items 31539, 31542 and 31545)
Omit " advanced breast biopsy instrumentation (ABBI)", substitute "a bore-enbloc stereotactic biopsy".
14 Schedule 1 (items 34527 and 34528)
Omit " Hickman or Broviac", substitute "central venous line".
15 Schedule 1 (item 34530)
Omit "Hickman or Broviac", substitute "Central venous line".
16 Schedule 1 (item 35518)
Omit "premenopausal women and at least 2 cm in diameter in postmenopausal women", substitute "a premenopausal person and at least 2 cm in diameter in a postmenopausal person".
17 Schedule 1 (item 35614)
Omit "female".
18 Schedule 1 (item 37217)
Omit "gold", insert "radio-opaque".
19 Schedule 1 (item 41884)
Omit " Minitrach or similar", substitute "mini tracheostomy"
20 Schedule 1 (item 48660)
Omit ", other than a service associated with artificial intervertebral total disc replacement".
21 Schedule 1 (item 48663)
Omit "(if an assisting surgeon performs the approach)--principal surgeon (H) (Anaes.) (Assist.)", substitute "--principal surgeon (H) (Anaes.)".
22 Schedule 1 (item 48666)
Omit "(if an assisting surgeon performs the approach)--assisting surgeon (H) (Assist.)", substitute "--assisting surgeon (H)".
23 Schedule 1 (item 48669)
Omit ", other than a service associated with artificial intervertebral total disc replacement".
24 Schedule 1 (item 48672)
Omit "(if an assisting surgeon performs the approach)--principal surgeon (H) (Anaes.) (Assist.)", substitute "--principal surgeon (H) (Anaes.)".
25 Schedule 1 (item 48675)
Omit "(if an assisting surgeon performs the approach)--assisting surgeon (H) (Assist.)", substitute "assisting surgeon (H)".
26 Schedule 1 (item 48684)
Omit ", other than a service associated with artificial intervertebral total disc replacement".
27 Schedule 1 (items 48691, 48692 and 48693)
Repeal the items, substitute:
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48691 |
Lumbar artificial intervertebral total disc replacement, at one level only, including removal of disc, for a patient who: (a) has not had prior spinal fusion surgery at the same lumbar level; and (b) does not have vertebral osteoporosis; and (c) has failed conservative therapy; other than a service associated with item 40300 or 40301 (Anaes.) (Assist.) |
1 793.65 |
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48692 |
Lumbar artificial intervertebral total disc replacement, at one level only, including removal of disc, for a patient who: (a) has not had prior spinal fusion surgery at the same lumbar level; and (b) does not have vertebral osteoporosis; and (c) has failed conservative therapy; other than a service associated with item 40300 or 40301--principal surgeon (Anaes.) (Assist.) |
1 208.95 |
|
48693 |
Lumbar artificial intervertebral total disc replacement, at one level only, including removal of disc, for a patient who: (a) has not had prior spinal fusion surgery at the same lumbar level; and (b) does not have vertebral osteoporosis; and (c) has failed conservative therapy; other than a service associated with item 40300 or 40301--assisting surgeon (Anaes.) (Assist.) |
584.70 |
28 Schedule 1 (item 52133)
Omit " Minitrach or similar", substitute "mini tracheostomy".
Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulation 2013
29 Schedule 1 (items 73059, 73060, 73061, 73064 and 73065)
Omit "and 73063", substitute "73063, 73066 and 73067".
30 Schedule 1 (cell at item 73065, column headed "Fee ($)")
Repeal the cell, substitute:
86.00