Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2006
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27 Nuclear scanning services
Items 61302 to 61650 apply only if:
(a) the performance of the service does not involve the use of positron‑emission radio‑isotopes or a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner; and
(b) the service is performed:
(i) by a specialist or consultant physician whose name is included in a register, given to the Medicare Australia CEO by the Joint Nuclear Medicine Specialist Credentialling and Accreditation Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, of participants in the Joint Nuclear Medicine Specialist Credentialling Program of the Committee; or
(ii) by a person acting on behalf of a specialist or consultant physician mentioned in subparagraph (i); and
(c) the final report of the service is compiled by the specialist or consultant physician who performed the preliminary examination of the patient and the estimation and administration of the dosage of radiopharmaceuticals.
Note Item 61650 is taken to be an item in the table — see the Health Insurance (LeukoScan) Determination HS/08/2006.