11Personal attendance by certain medical practitioners

11 Personal attendance by certain medical practitioners

(1) The items mentioned in subrule (3) apply only to a service provided in the course of a personal attendance by:

(a) a medical practitioner (other than a medical practitioner employed by the proprietor of a hospital that is not a private hospital); or

(b) a medical practitioner who:

(i) is employed by the proprietor of a hospital that is not a private hospital; and

(ii) provides the service otherwise than in the course of employment by that proprietor.

(2) Paragraph (1) (b) applies whether or not another person provides essential assistance to the medical practitioner in accordance with accepted medical practice.

(3) The items are items 1 to 10816, 11012, 11015, 11018, 11021, 11212, 11304, 11500, 11600, 11627, 11701, 11712, 11724, 11921, 12000, 12003, 12201, 13030, 13100, 13103, 13106, 13109, 13110, 13112, 13209, 13290, 13292, 13300, 13303, 13306, 13309, 13312, 13318, 13319, 13400, 13500, 13503, 13506, 13700, 13815, 13818, 13830, 13839, 13842, 13845, 13848, 13851, 13854, 13857, 13870, 13873, 13876, 13879, 13882, 13885, 13888, 14100, 14103, 14106, 14109, 14112, 14115, 14118, 14120, 14122, 14124, 14126, 14128, 14130, 14132, 14200, 14203, 14206, 14209, 14212, 14215, 14224, 15600, 16003 to 16512 and 16515 to 51318.

(4) For this rule, an attendance by a medical practitioner on a patient by way of a telepsychiatry consultation, to which any of items 353 to 358 applies, is taken to be a personal attendance by the medical practitioner on the patient.