Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 5) Determination 2022

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

Dated    12 December 2022

Travis Haslam

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1— Extension of COVID-19 services 

Health Insurance (General Practice COVID-19 Treatment) Determination 2022   2

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020   2         

Schedule 2—Amendments pathology COVID-19 services 3

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020 3

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 5) 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Extension of COVID-19 services

1  Section 4

Omit “31 December 2022”, substitute “31 December 2023”. 

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020

2  Section 3

Omit “31 December 2022”, substitute “31 December 2023”.

Schedule 2—Amendments to pathology COVID-19 services

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020

1  Schedule 1 (items 69506, 69507, 69511 and 69512, column 2, paragraph (a))

Omit “and the fee charged for the service does not exceed the schedule fee”.