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PUBLIC LAW 89-97-JULY 30, 1965

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prescribed in regulations; and except that for purposes of part A such term shall not include any agency or organization which is primarily for the care and treatment of mental diseases. "Outpatient Hospital Diagnostic Services " (p) The term 'outpatient hospital diagnostic services' means diagnostic services— "(1) which are furnished to an individual as an outpatient by a hospital or by others under arrangements with them made by a hospital; and "(2) which are ordinarily furnished by such hospital (or by others under such arrangements) to its outpatients for the purpose of diagnostic study; excluding, however— "(3) any item or service if it would not be included under subsection (b) if furnished to an inpatient of a hospital; and " (4) any services furnished under such arrangements unless furnished in the hospital or in other facilities operated by or under the supervision of the hospital or its organized medical staff. "Physicians' Services " (q) The term 'physicians' services' means professional services performed by physicians, including surgery, consultation, and home, office, and institutional calls (but not including services described in the last sentence of subsection (b)). "Physician " (r) The term 'physician', when used in connection with the performance of any function or action, means (1) a doctor of medicine or osteopathy legally authorized to practice medicine and surgery by the State in which he performs such function or action (including a physician within the meaning of section 1101(a)(7)), or (2) a doctor of dentistry or of dental or oral surgery who is legally authorized to practice dentistry by the State in which he performs such function but only with respect to (A) surgery related to the jaw or any structure contiguous to the jaw or (B) the reduction of any fracture of the jaw or any facial bone. "Medical and Other Health Services "(s) The term 'medical and other health services' means any of the following items or services (unless they would otherwise constitute inpatient hospital services, extended care services, or home health services): "(1) physicians' services; "(2) services and supplies (including d r u ^ and biologicals which cannot, as determined in accordance with regulations, be self-administered) furnished as an incident to a physician's professional service, of kinds which are commonly furnished in physicians' offices and are commonly either rendered without charge or included in the physicans' bills, and hospital services (including drugs and biologicals which cannot, as determined in accordance with regulations, be self-administered) incident to physicians' services rendered to outpatients;

^4 st^t, 559.

42 USC 1301.

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