HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1985 NO. 36 

HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1985 NO. 36 
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1985 No. 36 HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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  After regulation 2ADA of the Health Insurance Regulations the following
regulation is inserted:
Medicare benefit not payable in respect of certain professional services
  "2ADB. (1) Unless the Minister otherwise directs, medicare benefits are not
payable in respect of professional services rendered in prescribed
circumstances.
  "(2) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), professional services rendered
in relation to the provision of chelation therapy (that is to say, the
intravenous administration of ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid or any of its
salts) otherwise than for the treatment of heavy-metal poisoning shall be
taken to be professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances.".


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1985 No. 36*1* HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 April 1985.
*2* Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135; 1976
Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No.
230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157, 251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231,
253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162.