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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

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures
No. 3) Determination 2022

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

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 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical – Expansion of GP and Allied Health Mental Health Services) Determination 2020

  1. Section 11

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.

 


Schedule 2— Cessation of bushfire services

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services General Practitioner Telehealth Services) Determination 2018

2.     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 General Medical Services – Mental Health Services for Bushfire Response) Determination 2020

3.     After section 3

Insert:

3A.  Cessation

               Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 June 2022 at 11.59pm.

 


Schedule 3— Extension of COVID-19 services

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID19) Determination 2020

4.     Section 3

Repeal the section, substitute:

3.  Cessation

            Unless earlier revoked this instrument ceases on 30 September 2022 at 11.59pm.

 

 

Health Insurance (General Practice COVID19 Management Support Service) Determination 2021

5.     Section 4

Repeal the section, substitute:

4.  Cessation

Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 September 2022 at 11.59pm.