6Eligibility for services

6 Eligibility for services

(1) A patient is eligible to receive a service specified in Schedule 1 to this instrument if they: (a) receive a request for the service as part of the National Lung Cancer Screening Program when they are aged between 50 years and 70 years and 364 days; and (b) are asymptomatic (show no signs or symptoms of lung cancer); and (c) currently smoke or have quit smoking in the past ten years; and (d) have a history of cigarette tobacco smoking of at least 30 pack-years. (2) If a patient has been assessed as eligible to receive a service described in items 57410 and 57413, the patient remains eligible to receive these services until they turn 71 years and 364 days.