Meaning of requester and provider
23DZZIE Meaning of requester and provider
Meaning of requester
For the purposes of this Part, a person is a requester of a kind of pathology service if the person is one or more of the following:
a practitioner, a participating midwife or a participating nurse practitioner;
a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraph (a);
a person who exercises control or direction over a person specified in paragraph (a) (in his or her capacity as such a person).
For the purposes of this Part, a person is a requester of a kind of diagnostic imaging service if the person is one or more of the following:
a medical practitioner;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(2)—a dental practitioner;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3)—a chiropractor;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3A)—a physiotherapist;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3B)—a podiatrist;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3C)—an osteopath;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3D)—a participating midwife;
if the service is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of subsection 16B(3E)—a participating nurse practitioner;
in any case:
a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraphs (a) to (fb); or
a person who exercises control or direction over a person specified in paragraphs (a) to (fb) (in his or her capacity as such a person).
Meaning of provider
For the purposes of this Part, a person is a provider of a kind of pathology service or diagnostic imaging service if the person is one or more of the following:
a person who renders that kind of service;
a person who carries on a business of rendering that kind of service;
a person who employs, or engages under a contract for services, a person specified in paragraph (a) or (b);
a person who exercises control or direction over a person (the second person) specified in paragraph (a) or (b) (in the second person’s capacity as a person specified in paragraph (a) or (b));
an approved pathology practitioner;
an approved pathology authority.
For the purposes of this Part, a person is a provider if the person is a provider of any kind of pathology service or diagnostic imaging service.
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