Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Chronic Disease Management) Regulation 2014

Select Legislative Instrument No. 158, 2014

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 30 October 2014

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2014

1  Name

  This is the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Chronic Disease Management) Regulation 2014.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 November 2014.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2014

1  After clause 2.17.10 of Schedule 1

Insert:

2.17.10A  Application of items in relation to items 721, 723 and 732

  The following items do not apply to a service mentioned in the item that is provided by a medical practitioner, if the service is provided on the same day for the same patient for whom the practitioner provides a service mentioned in item 721, 723 or 732:

 (a) items 3, 4, 23, 24, 36, 37, 44, 47, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 65;

 (b) items 597, 598, 599 and 600;

 (c) items 5000, 5003, 5020, 5023, 5040, 5043, 5060 and 5063;

 (d) items 5200, 5203, 5207, 5208, 5220, 5223, 5227 and 5228.