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. > cone beam computed tomography means a service performed on a rotating gantry to which an X‑ray source and a 2‑dimensional flat panel detector are fixed that produces multiple sequential planar projection images in a single revolution around the patient, which are reconstructed into a 3‑dimensional image. > consultation has the meaning given by clause 1.2.12. > credentialled specialist means a specialist or consultant physician credentialled under the ‘Joint Nuclear Medicine Specialist Credentialling Program for the Recognition of the Credentials of Nuclear Medicine Specialists for Positron Emission Tomography’ overseen by the JNMCAC. > CT means computed tomography. > eligible equipment, for an MRI or MRA service, has the meaning given by clause 2.5.5. > eligible provider, for an MRI or MRA service, has the meaning given by clause 2.5.4. > FDG means 18F‑fluorodeoxyglucose. > GEJ means gastro‑oesophageal junction. > Group, for a Group in the table, means every item in the Group. > group of practitioners has the same meaning as in subsection 16A(10) of the Act. > highest fee has the meaning given by clause 1.2.12. > item means: (a) an item mentioned, by number, in column 1 of a table in: (i) Schedule 1; or (ii) Schedule 1 to the pathology services table; or (iii) Schedule 1 to the general medical services table; and (b) in a reference immediately followed by a number—the item so numbered. > Note: Example: A reference by number to any of items 11240, 11603 to 11612, 30361 and 30488 is a reference to the item so numbered in the general medical services table. > JNMCAC means the Joint Nuclear Medicine Credentialling and Accreditation Committee of the RACP and RANZCR. > (K) item means an item that includes the symbol (K) at the end of the item. > maximum extended life age has the meaning given by clause 1.2.2. > MRA means magnetic resonance angiography. > MRI means magnetic resonance imaging. > new effective life age has the meaning given by clause 1.2.2. > (NK) item means an item that includes the symbol (NK) at the end of the item. > non‑consultation service has the meaning given by clause 1.2.12. > non‑metropolitan hospital means a hospital that is located outside the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Greater Hobart, Darwin and Canberra major statistical divisions, as defined in the ASGC. > (NR) has the meaning given by clause 1.2.6. > partial eligible equipment has the meaning given by clause 2.5.6. > PET means positron emission tomography. > practice location has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1. > professional service has the meaning given by subsection 3(1) of the Act. > providing practitioner, for a service mentioned in an item in Group I1 of Part 2, means the medical practitioner by whom, or under whose supervision or direction, the service was performed. > (R) has the meaning given by clause 1.2.6. > RA1 means an inner regional area as classified by the ASGC. > RA2 means an outer regional area as classified by the ASGC. > RA3 means a remote area as classified by the ASGC. > RA4 means a very remote area as classified by the ASGC. > RACP means The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (ABN 90 270 343 237). > RANZCR means The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (ABN 37 000 029 863). > regional, rural or remote area has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1. > registered sonographer means a person whose name is entered on the Register of Sonographers kept by the Chief Executive Medicare. > remote location means a place within Australia that is more than 30 kilometres by road from: (a) a hospital that provides a radiology or computed tomography service under the direction of a specialist in the specialty of diagnostic radiology; or (b) a free‑standing radiology or computed tomography facility under the direction of a specialist in the specialty of diagnostic radiology. > report means a report prepared by a medical practitioner. > RRMA4 means a small rural centre as classified by the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification. > RRMA5 means a rural centre with an urban centre population of less than 10 000 persons as classified by the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification. > Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification has the meaning given by the general medical services table. > scan, for items 63001 to 63567, has the meaning given by clause 2.5.7. > sequence, for a scan, means a series of images collected at the same time with similar image parameters (not including a scan designed to establish patient position and subsequently used to plan other scans). > SLA has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1. > SSD has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1. > Subgroup for a Subgroup in the table, means every item in the Subgroup. > unreferred service has the meaning given by clause 2.6.1. > upgraded has the meaning given by subclause 1.2.2(3). > Note: Several other words and expressions used in this instrument have a meaning given by subsection 3(1) of the Act, for example, the following: (a) diagnostic imaging service; (b) general medical services table; (c) participating midwife; (d) participating nurse practitioner; (e) pathology services table; (f) practitioner; (g) specialist.