38Consultant occupational physicians

38 Consultant occupational physicians

A fee specified for an attendance by a consultant occupational physician only applies if the attendance relates to 1 or more of the following matters:

(a) evaluation and assessment of a patient’s rehabilitation requirements where, in the consultant’s opinion, the patient has an accepted medical condition that:

(i) may be affected by the patient’s working environment; or

(ii) affects the patient’s capacity to be employed;

(b) management of an accepted medical condition that, in the consultant’s opinion, may affect a patient’s capacity for continued employment, or return to employment, following a non-compensable accident, injury or ill-health;

(c) evaluation and forming an opinion, including management as the case requires, of a patient’s medical condition where causation may be related to acute or chronic exposure to scientifically acknowledged environmental hazards or toxins.