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Volume 46, No. 18

B.C. Reg. 327/2003

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

September 9, 2003

B.C. Reg. 327/2003, deposited August 27, 2003, pursuant to the HOSPITAL INSURANCE

ACT [Sections 5 and 29]. Order in Council 830/2003, approved and ordered August 27, 2003.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective September 1, 2003, the Hospital Insurance Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 25/61, is amended by adding the following section:

5.24

(1) In this section, "pathology services" means, subject to subsection (3), the laboratory analysis of any blood, tissue, or body fluid by any process method and includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(

a) analytical, immunological, or molecular biological

assays;

(

b) haematology, clinical chemistry, transfusion medicine, cytogenetics, gross and histological (microscopic) anatomic pathology, and microbiology and virology tests.

(2) If pathology services are ordered for a qualified person by a medical practitioner, dentist, podiatrist, or midwife for the purpose of diagnosis, clinical management, or early detection or prevention of congenital or acquired disease, these services are general hospital services.

(3) Pathology services do not include the laboratory procedures listed in

Schedule B if they are performed by a physician for or on his or her own patients without a referral. — C. HANSEN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule B

Candida Culture

E.C.G. tracing, without

interpretation

Examination for pinworm ova

Fern Test

Fungus, direct examination, KOH preparation

Glucose — semiquantitative (dipstick analysed visually or by reflectance meter)

Haemoglobin — cyanmethaemoglobin method, and/or haematocrit

Haemoglobin — other methods

Occult blood — faeces

Pregnancy test, immunologic — urine

Secretion smear for eosinophils

Sedimentation rate

Sperm, Seminal examination for presence or absence

Stained smear

Trichomonas and/or Candida, direct examination

Urinalysis — Chemical or any part of (screening)

Urinalysis — Microscopic examination of centrifuged deposit

Urinalysis — Complete diagnostic, semi-quant and micro

White cell count only

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