Health Insurance Act 1973

The Minister must keep a Diagnostic Imaging Register.

The Register is kept for the following purposes:

gathering information on the provision of diagnostic imaging services, including (but not limited to) the structure of medical practices connected with the provision of those services, for the purposes of planning and developing the Commonwealth medicare benefits program;

identifying whether medicare benefit is payable for a particular diagnostic imaging service rendered to a person;

assisting in identifying whether inappropriate practice (as defined for the purposes of Part VAA of this Act) is taking place;

assisting in identifying whether contraventions of Part IIBA in relation to diagnostic imaging are taking place.