Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 3)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No. 59

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 29 March 2007

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 (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 3).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence:

 (a) if they are registered before the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 commences — on the commencement of that Act; or

 (b) if they are registered after that Act commences — on the day after they are registered.

3 Amendment of Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2006

  Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2006.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 3 (1), definition of approved day hospital facility

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[2] Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 5

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hospital or approved day hospital facility.

insert

hospital.

[3] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 12AA (9)

omit

hospital or day

[4] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraphs 44 (1) (b), (2) (c) and (2B) (b) and 45 (1) (b)

omit

or approved day hospital facility,

[5] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 45 (1A) (b)

substitute

 (b) is a person who:

 (i) is not an in‑patient of a hospital or a care recipient in a residential aged care facility; or

 (ii) being an in‑patient of a hospital, is a private patient of that hospital.

[6] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 45 (2) (b)

omit

hospital or approved day hospital facility; and

insert

hospital; and

[7] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 45 (2A) (c)

substitute

 (c) is a person who:

 (i) is not an in‑patient of a hospital or a care recipient in a residential aged care facility; or

 (ii) being an in‑patient of a hospital, is a private patient of that hospital.

[8] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 45 (3) (c)

omit

hospital or approved day hospital facility.

insert

hospital.

[9] Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 55

omit

hospital or approved day hospital facility.

insert

hospital.

[10] Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 58C (1) (b)

substitute

 (b) the attendance is on a patient who:

 (i) is an admitted patient of a hospital; and

 (ii) is not a care recipient in a residential aged care facility; and

 (iii) is being provided with 1 of the following types of specialist care:

 (A) geriatric evaluation and management;

 (B) rehabilitation care.

[11]  Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 59

substitute

59 Meaning of living in a community setting in item 900

  For item 900, a patient is living in a community setting if the patient is not an in‑patient of a hospital or a care recipient in a residential aged care facility.

[12] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 708

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hospital, approved day hospital facility

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hospital

[13] Schedule 1, Part 3, items 10990, 10991 and 10992, paragraph (c)

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[14] Schedule 1, Part 3, item 52055

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hospital or day hospital facility,

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hospital,

[15] Further amendments

 (1) The following items of Part 3 of Schedule 1 are amended by omitting ‘or approved day hospital facility’:

 (2) The following items of Part 3 of Schedule 1 are amended by omitting ‘hospital or approved day hospital facility,’ and inserting ‘hospital,’:

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