Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS 1975 - REG 14

         (1)   Unless the Minister otherwise directs, medicare benefits are not payable in respect of professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances.

         (2)   Each of the following shall be taken to be professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances:

                (a)    professional services rendered in relation to the provision of chelation therapy (that is to say, the intravenous administration of ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid or any of its salts) otherwise than for the treatment of heavy-metal poisoning;

               (b)    professional services rendered in association with the injection of human chorionic gonadotrophin in the management of obesity;

                (c)    professional services rendered in relation to the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of multiple sclerosis;

                (e)    professional services rendered for the purpose of, or in relation to, the removal of tattoos;

              (ea)    professional services rendered for the purposes of, or in relation to, the removal from a cadaver of kidneys for transplantation;

                (f)    professional services rendered for the purposes of, or in relation to:

                          (i)    the transplantation of a thoracic or abdominal organ, other than a kidney, or of part of an organ of that kind; or

                         (ii)    the transplantation of a kidney in conjunction with the transplantation of a thoracic or other abdominal organ, or of a part of an organ of that kind;

                        if the services are rendered to a patient of a hospital;

               (g)    professional services rendered for the purpose of administering microwave (UHF radiowave) cancer therapy, including the intravenous injection of drugs used immediately before or during the therapy.