Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2) (Cth)

Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 260

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, 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 October 2010

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

NICOLA ROXON

Minister for Health and Ageing

Contents

1Name of Regulations                                            3

2Commencement                                                 3

3Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975        3

4Services for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee — GMST items 709, 711 and 713                                                                3

Schedule 1Amendment commencing 1 May 2010 4

Schedule 2Amendments commencing 1 November 2010 6

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2).

Commencement

These Regulations commence, or are taken to have commenced, as follows:

(a)on 1 May 2010 — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;

(b)on 1 November 2010 — regulation 4 and Schedule 2.

Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975

Schedules 1 and 2 amend the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.

Services for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee — GMST items 709, 711 and 713

(1)For paragraph 10 (2) (aa) of the Act, a service described in items 709, 711 and 713 of the general medical services table

is taken to have been prescribed from 1 July 2008 to 31 April 2010 (inclusive).

Note Items 709, 711 and 713:

(a)were inserted into the general medical services table by the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2) which commenced on 1 July 2008; and

(b)were repealed by the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 3) which commenced on 1 May 2010.

(2)In this regulation:

Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Note The term general medical services table is defined in the Act.

Schedule 1 Amendment commencing 1 May 2010

(regulation 3)

[1] Schedule 6

substitute

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	3, 4, 20, 23, 24, 35, 36, 37, 43, 44, 47, 51
2	A2	52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 92, 93, 95, 96,
3	A5	160, 161, 162, 163, 164
4	A6	170, 171, 172
5	A7	173, 193, 195, 197, 199
6	A11	597, 598, 599, 600
7	A14	701, 703, 705, 707, 715
8	A15	721, 723, 729, 731, 732, 735, 739, 743, 747, 750, 758
9	A17	900, 903
10	A18	2497, 2501, 2503, 2504, 2506, 2507, 2509, 2517, 2518, 2521, 2522, 2525, 2526, 2546, 2547, 2552, 2553, 2558, 2559
11	A19	2598, 2600, 2603, 2606, 2610, 2613, 2616, 2620, 2622, 2624, 2631, 2633, 2635, 2664, 2666, 2668, 2673, 2675, 2677
12	A20	2710, 2712, 2713, 2721, 2723, 2725, 2727
13	A22	5000, 5003, 5010, 5020, 5023, 5028, 5040, 5043, 5049, 5060, 5063, 5067
14	A23	5200, 5203, 5207, 5208, 5220, 5223, 5227, 5228, 5260, 5263, 5265, 5267
15	A27	4001
16	M12	10986, 10987, 10988, 10989, 10997
17	M2	10993, 10994, 10995, 10996, 10998, 10999

Schedule 2 Amendments commencing 1 November 2010

(regulation 3)

[1] Subparagraph 6EF (b) (ii)

omit

rule 28 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2009

insert

clause 1.2.5 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2010

[2] Subregulation 13 (21)

omit

rule 61

insert

clause 2.43.4

Note

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