2General

2 General

(1) In this table, unless the contrary intention appears:

accredited site means a site accredited by ANZAPNM as a site for advanced training in PET.

(Anaes.) — see the general medical services table.

ANZAPNM means the Australian and New Zealand Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine (ABN 99 665 425 983).

bulk‑billed, for a service, means:

(a) a medicare benefit is payable to a person in relation to the service; and

(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, his or her right to the payment of the medicare benefit; and

(ii) the eligible provider accepts the assignment in full payment of his or her fee for the service provided.

comprehensive facility means a building or part of a building, or more than 1 building if public access between the buildings is by a covered pedestrian walkway, 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) neurology;

(f) radiation oncology;

(g) surgical oncology;

(h) x-ray.

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

(a) using a detector 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) registering a resulting variable amount of x‑rays and transforming that information into a cross‑sectional image after the application of complex algorithms.

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.

CT equipment includes the following components:

(a) a gantry;

(b) a couch;

(c) a computer;

(d) an operator station;