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Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Telehealth and Telephone Attendances) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2023

I, Daniel McCabe, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated 15 June 2023

Daniel McCabe

First Assistant Secretary

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

1 Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Telehealth and Telephone Attendances) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2023.

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. Whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Telehealth and Telephone Attendances) Determination 2021

1 Subsection 5(1) (definition of person who meets the PBS criteria for COVID‑19 antiviral therapy)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

person who meets the PBS criteria for COVID‑19 antiviral therapy means a person who is:

(a) 70 years of age or older;

(b) 60 years of age or older with at least one additional risk factor;

(d) of First Nations descent, who is 30 years of age or older and with at least one additional risk factor;

(e) 18 years of age or older and who is moderately to severely immunocompromised; or

(f) 18 years of age or older who has been previously hospitalised from COVID-19 disease.