70Requests for diagnostic imaging services—information and form requirements

#### 70 Requests for diagnostic imaging services—information and form requirements (1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 23DQ(1) of the Act. Information that must be included (2) The following information must be included in a subsection 16B(1) request: (a) the name of the person making the request; (b) the address of the place of practice, or the provider number in respect of the place of practice, or the requester number, of the person making the request; (c) the date of the request; (d) a description of the diagnostic imaging service being requested that provides, in terms that are generally understood throughout the medical profession, sufficient information to identify the item of the diagnostic imaging services table that relates to the service. Branded diagnostic imaging request forms (3) Subsection (4) applies to a subsection 16B(1) request if: (a) the request is made using a document for use in making a subsection 16B(1) request that is supplied, or made available to, a practitioner (within the meaning of section 23DQ of the Act) by a diagnostic imaging provider on or after 1 August 2012; and (b) the document, as supplied or made available, contains: (i) the registered name or trading name of the diagnostic imaging provider; and (ii) one or more locations where the diagnostic imaging provider renders diagnostic imaging services. (4) The request must include a statement that informs the person in relation to whom the diagnostic imaging service is requested that the request may be taken to a diagnostic imaging provider of the person’s choice. (5) In this section: > diagnostic imaging provider means: (a) a person who renders diagnostic imaging services; or (b) a person who carries on the business of rendering diagnostic imaging services; or (c) a person who employs, or engages under a contract of service, a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).