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Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Regulations 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated     5 August 2022

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

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

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Professional Services Review Scheme) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Regulations 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

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

 

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.