Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 10) (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 10)¹

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 383²

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, 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 16 December 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1. Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 10).

1. Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 January 2005.

1. Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.

Schedule 1          Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1]          After regulation 6EB

insert

6EFServices for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee (Act s 10 (2) (aa))

For paragraph 10 (2) (aa) of the Act, a service described in an item of the general medical services table mentioned in column 3 of Schedule 6 is prescribed.

[2]          After Schedule 5

insert

Schedule 6          Services for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee

(regulation 6EF)

Item	Group	Item of the general medical services table
1	A1	1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 20, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 48, 51
2	A2	52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 81, 83, 84, 86, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98
3	A5	160, 161, 162, 163, 164
4	A6	170, 171, 172
5	A7	173, 193, 195, 197, 199
6	A11	601, 602, 697, 698
7	A14	700, 702, 704, 706, 710, 712
8	A15	720, 724, 726, 728, 730, 734, 736, 738, 740, 742, 744, 759, 762, 765, 775, 778, 779
9	A17	900, 903
10	A18	2501, 2503, 2504, 2506, 2507, 2509, 2517, 2518, 2521, 2522, 2525, 2526, 2546, 2547, 2552, 2553, 2558, 2559, 2574, 2575, 2577, 2578
11	A19	2600, 2603, 2606, 2610, 2613, 2616, 2620, 2622, 2624, 2631, 2633, 2635, 2664, 2666, 2668, 2673, 2675, 2677, 2704, 2705, 2707, 2708
12	A20	2721, 2723, 2725, 2727
13	A22	5000, 5003, 5007, 5010, 5020, 5023, 5026, 5028, 5040, 5043, 5046, 5049, 5060, 5063, 5064, 5067
14	A23	5200, 5203, 5207, 5208, 5220, 5223, 5227, 5228, 5240, 5243, 5247, 5248, 5260, 5263, 5265, 5267
15	M2	10993, 10996, 10998

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, 273, 274, 275, 290 and 342; 2002 Nos. 246 and 261; 2003 Nos. 87, 254, 356 and 357; 2004 Nos. 46, 75, 110, 125, 180, 181, 305, 306 and 324.

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 2004.