Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 19DB

    Where:

  (a)   the proprietor, or each of the proprietors, of an accredited pathology laboratory is an approved pathology authority; and

  (b)   the approval of the premises as an accredited pathology laboratory has been revoked;

the proprietor or proprietors must cause to be taken such steps as are reasonable in all the circumstances to ensure that, before a pathology service is rendered in the laboratory:

  (c)   the practitioner, participating midwife or participating nurse practitioner who has as a patient the person in relation to whom the pathology service is to be rendered; and

  (d)   the person in relation to whom the pathology service is to be rendered or, if that person is in the care of another person, that other person;

are informed that a Medicare benefit would not be payable in respect of the pathology service if it were rendered in the laboratory.

Penalty:   1 penalty unit.