5Treatment of allied health services

5 Treatment of allied health services

  An allied health service provided in accordance with this Determination is to be treated, for the relevant provisions, as if:

 (a) it were both a professional service and a medical service; and

 (b) there were an item in the general medical services table that:

 (i) related to the service; and

 (ii) specified for the service a fee in relation to each State, being the fee specified in the item in Schedule 2 relating to the service.

Note   For this Determination, an internal Territory is deemed to form part of the State of New South Wales  — see subsection 3C (7) of the Act.