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HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 17

Medicare benefits not payable in respect of certain medical expenses

  (1)   A medicare benefit is not payable in respect of a professional service if:

  (a)   the medical expenses in respect of that service have been paid, or are payable, to a recognized hospital;

  (b)   the medical practitioner who rendered the service was acting on behalf of an organization that was, when the service was rendered, an organization prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph;

  (c)   any part of the service was rendered on the premises of an organization that was, when the service was rendered, an organization referred to in paragraph   (b); or

  (d)   any amount has been paid, or is payable, in respect of the service in accordance with a scheme to which section   42B applies.



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