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Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2000
10Personal attendance for musculoskeletal ultrasound
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10 Personal attendance for musculoskeletal ultrasound
Items 55800 to 55854 apply to a musculoskeletal ultrasound service only if:
(a) the medical practitioner responsible for the conduct and report of the examination personally attends during the performance of the scan and personally examines the patient; or
(b) the service is performed, because of medical necessity, in a location that is more than 30 kilometres by the most direct road route from another practice where services that comply with paragraph (a) are available.