9PET nuclear scanning services—performance under personal supervision

9 PET nuclear scanning services—performance under personal supervision

(1) For the purposes of section 8, the service must be performed on a person by or under the personal supervision of:

(a) a credentialled specialist; or

(b) a medical practitioner other than the requesting practitioner if the medical practitioner:

(i) is a Fellow of the RACP or RANZCR; and

(ii) has reported 400 or more studies forming part of PET services for which a medicare benefit was payable; and

(iii) is authorised under State or Territory law to prescribe and administer to humans the PET radiopharmaceuticals that are to be administered to the person; and

(iv) met the requirements of subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) before 1 November 2011.

Note: For the purposes of this section, RACP means The Royal Australasian College of Physicians; and RANZCR means The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.