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HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 4) 2001 NO. 275

STATUTORY RULES 2001 No. 275

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Health and Aged Care

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 4)

Section 133 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters for the purposes of the Act.

Section 23DS of the Act provides that the regulations may require medical practitioners to prepare and maintain records of diagnostic imaging services rendered by them and, in particular, may impose requirements relating to the information that must be included in the records.

Regulation 20 of the Health Insurance Regulations 1975 (the Principal Regulations) sets out the records of diagnostic imaging services that must be kept by medical practitioners who provide diagnostic imaging services. Subregulation 20(2) of the Principal Regulations requires those records to include a copy of the report by the providing practitioner (the report).

The Amending Regulations provide that, where an ultrasound service is performed by a registered sonographer under the supervision, or at the direction, of the providing practitioner, the providing practitioner's report must include the name of the registered sonographer who performed the service.

The Amending Regulations commenced on 1 November 2001.

Details of the Amending Regulations are set out in the Attachment.

NOTES ON CLAUSES

Regulation 1 provides that the regulations may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001(No. 4).

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on 1 November 2001.

Regulation 3 provides that the Health Insurance Regulations 1975 are amended by Schedule 1.

Item 1 of Schedule 1 inserts a new subregulation 20(2A). New subregulation 20(2A) provides that where an ultrasound service is performed by a registered sonographer under the supervision, or at the direction, of the providing practitioner, the providing practitioner's report must include the name of the registered sonographer who performed the service.

Item 2 of Schedule 1 inserts a new subregulation 20(4) that defines the term 'registered sonographer'.