Part 3Dictionary

Part 3—Dictionary

Note: All references in the Dictionary to a provision are references to a provision in this Schedule of this instrument unless otherwise indicated.

In this instrument:

Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

(Anaes.) has the meaning given by clause 2.43.5 of Schedule 1 to the general medical services table.

angiography suite has the meaning given by clause 2.3.4.

ASGC means the document titled Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) (ABS catalogue number 1216.0), published by the Australian Statistician in July 2010.

Note: The ASGC could in 2014 be viewed on the Australian Bureau of Statistics website (http://www.abs.gov.au).

bulk‑billed, for a service, means the following:

(a) a medicare benefit is payable to a person in relation to the service;
(b) under an agreement entered into under section 20A of the Act:
(i) the person assigns to the eligible provider by whom, or on whose behalf, the service is provided, the person’s right to the payment of the medicare benefit; and
(ii) the eligible provider accepts the assignment in full payment of the eligible provider’s fee for the service provided.

Commonwealth concession card holder has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1.

comprehensive facility means a building or part of a building, or more than one building, where all of the following services are performed (whether or not other services are also performed):

(a) PET;
(b) computed tomography;
(c) diagnostic ultrasound;
(d) medical oncology;
(e) radiation oncology;
(f) surgical oncology;
(g) X‑ray.

comprehensive practice means a medical practice, or a radiology department of a hospital, that provides X‑ray, ultrasound and computed tomography services (whether or not it provides other services).

computed tomography means a service performed (with or without intravenous contrast) using a detector:

(a) that is coupled to an X‑ray tube that emits a finely collimated X‑ray beam as it rotates within a gantry around a patient either in incremental or helical manner; and
(b) that receives a series of data profiles depicting the degree of absorption encountered by the X‑ray beam, which are transformed into a cross‑sectional image after the application of complex algorithms.