Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Allied Health Services) Amendment (Clinically Relevant Service) Determination 2024

I, Louise Riley, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated   29 November 2024  

Louise Riley

Assistant Secretary

MBS Policy and Reviews Branch

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name...............................................1

2 Commencement.........................................1

3 Authority.............................................1

4 Schedules.............................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Allied Health Services) Determination 2024 2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Allied Health Services) Amendment (Clinically Relevant Service) Determination 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Allied Health Services) Determination 2024

1  Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

clinically relevant service means a service rendered by an allied health professional that is generally accepted in the relevant allied health profession (as the case may be) as being necessary for the appropriate treatment of the patient to whom it is rendered.