Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Determination 2022
I, Travis Haslam, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.
Dated 7 April 2022
Travis Haslam
Acting First Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Health Resourcing Group
Department of Health
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1— Flag fall amendments
Schedule 2— Cessation of bushfire services
Schedule 3— Extension of patholgy COVID-19 services
This instrument is the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures
No. 3) Determination 2022
(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 | 11 April 2022 |
|
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Repeal the section, substitute:
11 Fee in relation to the first patient during each attendance at a residential aged care facility
(1) For the first patient attended during one attendance by a general practitioner at one residential aged care facility on one occasion, the fee for the medical service described in whichever of items 2733 and 2735 applies is the amount listed in the item plus $67.35.
(2) For the first patient attended during one attendance by a medical practitioner at one residential aged care facility on one occasion, the fee for the medical service described in whichever of items 941 and 942 applies is the amount listed in the item plus $48.90.
(3) For the first patient attended during one attendance by a general practitioner at one residential aged care facility on one occasion, the fee for the medical service described in whichever of items 93400, 93401, 93402, 93403, 93421, 93287 and 93288 applies is the amount listed in the item plus $57.25.
(4) For the first patient attended during one attendance by a medical practitioner at one residential aged care facility on one occasion, the fee for the medical service described in whichever of items 93431, 93432, 93433, 93434, 93451, 93291 and 93292 applies is the amount listed in the item plus $41.60.
2. After section 3
Insert:
3A. Cessation
Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 June 2022 at 11.59pm.
3. After section 3
Insert:
3A. Cessation
Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 June 2022 at 11.59pm.
Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020
4. Section 3
Repeal the section, substitute:
Unless earlier revoked this instrument ceases on 30 September 2022 at 11.59pm.
Health Insurance (General Practice COVID‑19 Management Support Service) Determination 2021
5. Section 4
Repeal the section, substitute:
Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 September 2022 at 11.59pm.