Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Regulations 2022
I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 5 August 2022
David Hurley
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Mark Butler
Minister for Health and Aged Care
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Regulations 2019
This instrument is the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Regulations 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 | Immediately after the commencement of the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2022. | 1 July 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Regulations 2019
1 Section 5 (definition of relevant phone service)
Repeal the definition.
2 Section 8
Repeal the section, substitute:
8 Circumstances for medical practitioners for prescribed pattern of services
For the purposes of section 82A of the Act, circumstances in which services rendered or initiated by a medical practitioner constitute a prescribed pattern of services are that the medical practitioner renders or initiates 80 or more relevant services on each of 20 or more days in a 12 month period.