Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3) (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 2742

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 27 September 2001

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE

Minister for Health and Aged Care

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 November 2001.

3Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]After subregulation 13 (19)

insert

• (20)

  For subsection 19 (6) of the Act, the following additional particulars are prescribed in relation to professional services to which any of items 23010 to 24136 of the general medical services table relates:

  • (a)

    if the service rendered is administration of anaesthesia (other than administration of anaesthesia performed in association with a service to which item 22900 or 22905 applies):

    • (i)

      the name of each practitioner who performed a procedure for which the anaesthesia was administered; and

    • (ii)

      if item 25025 applies to the service — when the service time began and ended, and the duration of the service time; and

  • (b)

    if the service rendered is perfusion to which item 25050 applies — when the service time began and ended, and the duration of the service time; and

  • (c)

    if the service rendered is assistance in the administration of anaesthesia:

    • (i)

      the name of the principal anaesthetist; and

    • (ii)

      the name of each practitioner who performed a procedure for which the anaesthesia was administered; and

    • (iii)

      if item 25030 applies to the service — when the service time began and ended, and the duration of the service time.

• (21)

  In subregulation (20):

service time has the meaning given by rule 61 in Part 2 of the general medical services table.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80, as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135 (disallowed by the Senate on 4 September 1975); 1976 Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No. 230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157, 251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231, 253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162; 1985 Nos. 36, 50, 95, 205 and 290 (disallowed by the Senate at the expiration of 10 April 1986); 1986 Nos. 19, 20, 87 and 326; 1987 Nos. 32, 163 and 166; 1988 No. 314; 1989 Nos. 6, 54, 117 and 293; 1990 No. 25; 1991 Nos. 82, 314, 365 and 441; 1992 Nos. 42, 111, 239, 335 and 431; 1993 Nos. 106, 130 and 154; 1994 Nos. 20, 27, 111, 137, 138, 328 and 413; 1995 Nos. 9, 25, 287, 300 and 409; 1996 Nos. 231, 234, 235, 335 and 336; 1997 Nos. 61, 287, 300, 319 and 395; 1998 Nos. 44, 125, 138, 204, 220, 253, 268, 370, 371 and 372; 1999 Nos. 48, 88, 157, 176, 254, 343 and 344; 2000 Nos. 146 and 290; 2001 Nos. 272 and 273.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette