Health Insurance Determination HS/4/1996 (Cth)
DETERMINATION HS/4/1996
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973
DETERMINATION UNDER SUBSECTION 3C(1)
I, MICHAEL RICHARD LEWIS WOOLDRIDGE, Minister for Health and Family Services, pursuant to subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 HEREBY DETERMINE:
(1) that a health service specified in Column 2 of the Schedule to this determination, not being a service specified in the general medical services table, as in force from time to time, shall be treated, for the purposes of:
(a) section 4 of the National Health Act 1953;
(b) subsections 3(1) and 19(6) and sections 9, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 20A, 20B and 20BA of the Health Insurance Act 1973; and
(c) regulations 13, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 of the Health Insurance Regulations, as amended;
as if that health service were both a professional and a medical service and there were an item prescribed in the general medical services table:
(i) that related to that health service;
(ii) specified, in respect of that health service, the fee specified in Column 3 opposite to that health service; . .
(2) that this determination shall come into effect on and from 1 November 1996.
Dated this 31st day of October 1996
M Wooldridge
Minister for Health and Family Services
___________________________________________________________________________
Column 1 Column 2 Column 2
Health Service Fee
A Assistance at an operation under item 35536, 35636, $63.35
47333, 47345, 47357, 47375 of the general medical
services table.
B Assistance at a series or combination of operations under $63.35
item 35536, 35636, 47333, 47345, 47357 or 47375 of
the general medical services table where the fee for the
series or combination of operations does not exceed
$331.30.
C Assistance at a series or combination of an operation, or $63.35 operations, under items 35536, 35636, 47333, 47345,
47357 or 47375 of the general medical services table and
an operation, or operations, covered by items in group
T8 identified by the word "Assist" in the general medical
services table where the fee for the series or combination
of operations does not exceed $331.30 .
D Assistance at an operation under item 32033, 32036, one fifth of the 32039, 32042, 32045, 32046, 32047, 32051, 32054, established fee 32057, 32060, 32063, 32066, 32508, 32511, 32514, for the
32517, 36549, 37821, 37824, 37827, 40009, 48609, operation
49366, 50336 or 50339 of the general medical services
table.
E Assistance at a series or combination of operations under, one fifth of the items 32033, 32036, 32039, 32042, 32045, 32046, established fee
32047, 32051, 32054, 32057, 32060, 32063, 32066, for the
32508, 32511, 32514, 32517, 35536, 35636, 36549, combination of
37821, 37824, 37827, 40009, 47333, 47345, 47357, operations
47375, 48609, 49366, 50336 or 50339 of the general
medical services table, for which the aggregate fee
exceeds $331.30.
F Assistance at a series or combination of an operation or, one fifth of the operations, under items 32033, 32036, 32039, 32042, established fee 32045, 32046, 32047, 32051, 32054, 32057, 32060, for the
32063, 32066, 32508, 32511, 32514, 32517, 35536, combination of
35636, 36549, 37821, 37824, 37827, 40009, 47333, operations
47345, 47357, 47375, 48609, 49366, 50336 or 50339 of
the general medical services table and an operation, or
operations, covered by items in group T8 identified by
the word "Assist" in the general medical services table,
for which the aggregate fee exceeds $331.30.
0
0
0