Health Insurance (Section 3C – Allied Health Services) Amendment (Case Conference Exceptional Circumstance) Determination 2021

I, Travis Haslam, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated 3 November 2021

Travis Haslam

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule — exceptional circumstances provision

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C – Allied Health Services) Amendment (Case Conference Exceptional Circumstance) Determination 2021.

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.

 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 — exceptional circumstances provision

Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014

1. Subsection 15(3)

After “months’, insert “, unless in exceptional circumstances”.

2.     After subsection 15(3)

Insert:

(3A) For subsection (3), exceptional circumstances means there has been a significant change in the patient’s clinical condition or care circumstances that necessitates the performance of the service.