Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 82 HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 6

  6.1   After regulation 2CD, insert:
Information that must be included in requests for diagnostic imaging services
 "2CE. (1)   For the purposes of subsection 23DQ (1) of the Act, the following
information must be included in a subsection 16B (1) request by a medical
practitioner:

   (a)  the name and either:

        (i)    the address of the place of practice; or

        (ii)   the provider number in respect of the place of practice; of the
               requesting practitioner;

   (b)  the date of the request;

   (c)  a description of the requested diagnostic imaging service.

"(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), a description of the requested
diagnostic imaging service must provide, in terms that are generally
understood throughout the medical profession, sufficient information to
identify the item of the diagnostic imaging services table that relates to the
requested service but it need not specify the item number. Records of
diagnostic imaging services that must be kept by providing medical
practitioners
 "2CD. (1)   For the purposes of subsection 23DS (1) of the Act, a medical
practitioner who provides diagnostic imaging services (in this regulation
called the 'providing practitioner') must prepare and maintain records of
those services.

"(2) In relation to each service rendered, the providing practitioner s
records must include:

   (a)  a copy of the report by the providing practitioner; and

   (b)  if the service is rendered in circumstances specified in subsection
        16B (8) of the Act, sufficient information to indicate the nature of
        the emergency; and

   (c)  if the service is rendered in circumstances specified in subsection
        16B (9) of the Act, words indicating:

        (i)    that the person in relation to whom the service was rendered,
               or a person acting on that person's behalf, claimed that a
               medical practitioner, dental practitioner or chiropractor (in
               this regulation called the 'requesting practitioner') had made
               a request for the service to be rendered but that the request
               had been lost; and

        (ii)   that the providing practitioner, or an employee or agent of the
               providing practitioner, had sought and received from the
               requesting practitioner, or from an employee or agent of the
               requesting practitioner, confirmation that the request had been
               made; and

        (iii)  the date and the manner of that confirmation.

"(3) The providing practitioner s records must be kept in a manner that
enables retrieval of information on the basis of:

   (a)  the name of the person to whom the service was rendered; and

   (b)  the date on which the service was rendered.".