I didn't realise that dating scans had been take off the medicare schedule!!! Does anyone know when that happened? I mentioned it to my Dr and she told me that now they only do it if there is spotting etc. She asked me if I had any spotting and I know that if I'd told a teeny little lie she would have given me the referral but stupid me blurted the truth instead (the Dr looked so suprised lol). I'm wondering if they have only been taken off the schedule recently or a while ago because last year I got a refferral straight away but I was seeing a differant Dr then. I changed Dr because my old one was really hard to get an appointment with. I'm happy with the new one but if the old one bent the rules a bit and gave me the scan referral without any medicare approved reason I mught just pay her one more visit.