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Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Service COVID-19) Amendment (No. 3) Determination 2020

I, ELIZABETH DOWD, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following Determination.

Dated 17 May 2020

Elizabeth Dowd

Assistant Secretary

MBS Policy and Speicalist Services Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Health Financing Group

Department of Health

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1— Amendments

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID-19) Determination 2020

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID-19) Amendment (No. 3) 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.  The whole of this instrument

1 May 2020

 

 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 3C(1) 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID-19) Determination 2020

1  Subsection 7(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1)    Clause 1.2.9 of the pathology services table shall have effect as if items 69476, 69477, 69479 and 69480 of this Determination were specified in paragraph 1.2.9(2)(a) of the pathology services table.

2 Schedule 1 (table item 69479)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

69479

Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid 1 or more tests if:

(a) the person is a private patient in a recognised hospital; or

(b) the person receives the service from a prescribed laboratory as described in 4.1 of the Pathology Services Table

Where the service is bulk-billed

 50.00