5AACircumstances where this Determination applies — Rockhampton, Bundaburg and Gladstone Mobile MRI services

5AA Circumstances where this Determination applies – Rockhampton, Bundaburg and Gladstone Mobile MRI services

(1) This Determination applies to a relevant service provided using mobile diagnostic imaging equipment that has as its base for mobile diagnostic imaging the Mater Misericordiae Hospital Rockhampton, Ward St Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, where the following circumstances apply:

(a) in respect of items 63002 to 63483, where the service is performed pursuant to a request that is in accordance with subsection (2); and

(b) the service is:

(i) both:

(A) performed under the professional supervision of an eligible provider who is available to monitor and influence the conduct and diagnostic quality of the examination including, if necessary, by personal attendance on the patient; and

(B) reported by an eligible provider; or

(ii) performed in emergency; and

(c) the equipment is operated at a location mentioned in the Table; and

(d) the equipment used to perform the service is a General Electric Signa Echo Speed with Excite with a magnet strength of 1.5 Tesla and is mounted on a specifically built semi-trailer.

(2) The request referred to in paragraph (1)(a) must:

(a) be made by a practitioner who is a specialist, consultant physician or dental practitioner; and

(b) be made in writing; and

(c) identify the clinical indications for the service.

(3) For paragraph (1)(c), the operation of equipment at a location includes the operation of the equipment within the grounds of the location.

Table

5A. Bulk billing incentive

Paragraph 1.2.5A(1)(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the diagnostic imaging services table shall have effect as if the reference to “a service that is mentioned in an item in Division 2.5 of the table” in that clause included a reference to a service mentioned in an item in the Schedule to this Determination.