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Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment Determination 2020

I, GREG HUNT, Minister for Health, make the following Determination.

Dated 24 February 2020   

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1— Amendments

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

The later of:

(a) the day after this instrument is registered; and

(b) the day after this instrument has been approved by each House of Parliament.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

 

2.  Schedule 1

The later of:

(a) 1 May 2020; and

(b) the day after this instrument has been approved by each House of Parliament

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 10B of 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017

 

1 Subsection 4(1) (after table item dealing with item 32529)

Insert:

 

42504

15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item

 

2 Paragraph 4(5)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a) subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to items 82150, 82151 and 82152 in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act; and

 

3 Paragraph 4(6) (table)

 Repeal the table, substitute:

Item

Maximum increase ($)

55054

80 percent of the Schedule fee for the item.

55700

32.95

55703

16.55

55704

38.50

55705

16.55

55706

54.90

55707

38.50

55708

16.55

55709

22.00

55712

65.90

55715

22.00

55718

54.90

55721

65.90

55723

22.00

55725

22.00

55729

16.55

55762

32.95

55764

87.85

55766

32.95

55768

82.40

55770

32.95

55772

87.85

55774

38.50