Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 642

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 8 April 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 May 2004.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2003

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrules 29 (3) and 30 (8A)

omit

64990.

insert

64990 or 64991.

[2] Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 40, heading

substitute

77 Application of items 64990 and 64991

[3] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 40 (1)

substitute

 (1) If the diagnostic imaging service described in item 64991 is provided to a person, either that item or item 64990, but not both those items, applies to the service.

 (1A) If item 64990 or 64991 applies to a diagnostic imaging service, the fee specified in that item applies in addition to the fee specified in any other item in this table that applies to the service.

[4] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 40 (2)

omit

item 64990:

insert

items 64990 and 64991:

[5] Schedule 1, Part 2, after subrule 40 (2)

insert

 (3) For item 64991:

practice location, in relation to the provision of a diagnostic imaging service, means the place of practice in respect of which the medical practitioner by whom, or on whose behalf, the service is provided, has been allocated a provider number by the Commission.

regional, rural or remote area means an area classified as RRMAs 3-7 under the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification.

Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification has the meaning given by subrule 3 (1) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the general medical services table.

[6] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 64990

omit

(other than this item)

insert

(other than this item or item 64991)

[7] Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 64990

insert

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 268, as amended by 2003 No. 358.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 April 2004.