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Dr Jane Carrick
Medical practitioner
Auburn, NSW
The (then) Health Insurance Commission referred Dr Carrick to PSR in 2002 because she was rendering a high number of certain endoscopy-related services. A PSR Committee found that her conduct would be unacceptable to the general body of medical practitioners in connection with 28 of 30 MBS item 3048775 services. As reported last year,76 the Federal Court dismissed77 a judicial review application by Dr Carrick on all grounds except a constitutional issue to be resolved in the litigation regarding Dr Selim.78
- 75 MBS item 30487 is a small bowel intubation with biopsy
- 76 PSR Annual Report 2006–07 pp. 31–32
- 77 Carrick v Health Insurance Commission [2007] FCA 984
- 78 See note 54