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Schedule 3 SCHEDULE 4 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

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“SCHEDULE 4

UNIT VALUES FOR PURPOSE OF DETERMINING CHARGES FOR RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Regulation 2(3)

Group A:

1 unit value for each procedure

  • Abdomen erect and/or supine

  • Acromio-clavicular joint(s)

  • Ankle

  • Chest PA and/or lateral and/or obliques and/or rib views

  • Clavicle

  • Elbow

  • Femur

  • Finger or fingers of one hand

  • Foot

  • Foreign body demonstration

  • Hand

  • Hip

  • Humerus

  • Knee

  • Larynx

  • Localisation of treatment field

  • Mandible

  • Nasal bones

  • Calcaneum

  • Patella

  • Pathological specimen

  • Pelvis

  • Hips and pelvis

  • Post-nasal space

  • Radius and ulna

  • Sacro-iliac joints

  • Sacrum and/or coccyx

  • Scapula

  • Shoulder

  • Sinuses and antra

  • Sterno-clavicular joint

  • Sternum

  • Teeth

  • Thoracic inlet

  • Thumb

  • Tibia and fibula

  • Toe or toes of one foot

  • Wrist

  • Perineum

  • Soft tissues of neck

Group B:

2.5 unit values for each procedure

  • Cholangiography, post-operative

  • Cholecystography

  • Facial bones and/or cephalometry

  • Fluoroscopy with mobile image intensifier

  • Mammography

  • Mastoids

  • Orthopaedic measurement

  • Pelvimetry

  • Pneumothorax, diagnostic

  • Skull and/or pituitary fossa and/or optic foramina and/or internal auditory meati

  • Small bowel biopsy

  • Spine

  • Lumbar spine

  • Lumbo-sacral spine

  • Lumbo-sacral spine and sacro-iliac joints

  • Lumbo-sacral spine with obliques

  • Cervical spine

  • Cervical spine with obliques

  • Cervical spine with obliques and flexion and extension views

  • Lumbar spine and cervical spine on one patient

  • Teeth, panoramic tomography

  • Temporo-mandibular joints

  • Ultrasound, all types

  • Salivary glands

  • Skeletal survey

Group C:

6 unit values for each procedure

  • Cholangiography, operative

  • Cystography

  • Cystometrography

  • Cysto-urethrography

  • Dacrocystography

  • Endoscopy

  • Foreign body localisation

  • Gastro-intestinal tract, upper (includes examination to the mouth of the upper small bowel or any part thereof)

  • Orthopaedic pinning

  • Hysterosalpingography

  • Intra-uterine transfusion

  • Kidney, exposed

  • Laryngography

  • Mammary ductography

  • Retrograde pyelography and/or ascending ureterography

  • Sialography

  • Sinography

  • Tomography, as a separate examination

  • Urethrography

  • Cholangiography, infusion

  • Cholangiography, intravenous

  • Gastro-intestinal tract, lower

  • Pharyngography

  • Fluoroscopy, other

  • Computed tomography of the Head without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Head with contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Neck without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Neck with contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Thorax without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Thorax with contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Abdomen without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Abdomen with contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Pelvis without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Pelvis with contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of a Limb without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of a Limb with contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Spine without contrast enhancement

  • Computed tomography of the Spine with contrast enhancement

Group D:

12 Unit vales for each procedure

  • Aminiography

  • Arthrography

  • Biopsy and/or aspiration under imaging control (includes Amniocentesis including ultrasound examination before and after the procedure)

  • Bronchography

  • Cholangiograpy, percutaneous

  • Excretion urography

  • Gastro-intestinal tract, upper including small bowel

  • Gynaecography

  • Stereotaxis

  • Nerve injection under imaging control

  • Ventriculography

  • Nephrostogram, post operative

  • Antegrade pyelography

Group E:

30 Unit values for each procedure

  • Aortography

  • Bile duct, external drainage

  • Cardiac catheterisation without angiocardiography

  • Discography

  • Insertion of pacemaker

  • Lymphangiography

  • Myelography

  • Nephrostomy, percutaneous

  • Phlebography

  • Programmed stimulation study

  • Retrograde cholangio-pancreatography

  • Lumbar radiculography

  • Meatography

  • Shuntography

Group F:

60 unit values for each procedure

  • Angiocardiography

  • Angioplasty, including angiography pre- and post-angioplasty

  • Arteriography, all types

  • Embolisation

  • Encephalography

  • Pituitary implant

  • Magnetic resonance imaging

  • Bile duct, internal drainage

  • Bile duct, dilation of stricture

  • Bile duct, stone extraction

  • Kidney, stent insertion

  • Kidney, stone extraction or destruction

  • Dilatation of oesophageal stricture

  • Dilatation of pyloric stenosis

  • Insertion of caval filters

  • Management of varicocoele

  • Removal of intravascular foreign body

  • Ablation of function of spleen

  • Ablation of function of kidney

  • Ablation of function of parathyroid

  • Ablation of function of adrenal

  • Cisternography”