Health Insurance Determination HS/6/01 (Amendment) HS/06/05 (Cth)

Health Insurance Determination HS/6/01 (Amendment) HS/06/05

I, TONY ABBOTT, Minister for Health and Ageing, make this determination under section 3C of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 6/12/ 2005

Tony Abbott

Minister for Health and Ageing

Contents

Part 1 Preliminary 3

1.Name of Determination 3

2.Commencement and term 3

3.Amendment of the Health Insurance Determination HS/6/01 3

Schedule - Amendments 4

Part 1 Preliminary

Name of Determination¹

This Determination is the Health Insurance Determination HS/6/01 (Amendment) HS/06/05.

Commencement

This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.

Amendment of the Health Insurance Determination HS/6/01

The Schedule amends the Health Insurance Determination HS/6/01.

Schedule - Amendments

[1] Section 2 - Note

substitute:

Note Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in this determination have the same meanings as in the Act—see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

[2] Section 5

substitute:

This Determination applies to a relevant service in the following circumstances:

(a) where there is in force a written agreement between the owner or operator of a positron emission tomography facility and the Commonwealth that relates to the rendering of the service by means of the facility; and

(b) where the service is rendered pursuant to a written request made by a specialist or a consultant physician (not being the practitioner who renders the service) who determined that the service was necessary and whose patient the person was.

Note The circumstance in paragraph (b) mirrors the requirement in paragraph 16B(1)(b) of the Act that for a medicare benefit to be payable in respect of an R-type diagnostic imaging service, the service must be rendered pursuant to a written request, but limits which practitioners may request a relevant service.

[3] Subsection 6 (b)

omit:

professional services; and

insert:

professional services or medical services; and

[4] Subsection 6 (c)

substitute:

(c) there were an item of an R-type diagnostic imaging service in the diagnostic imaging services table that:

(i)related to the relevant service; and

(ii)specified in respect of the service a fee in relation to a State, being the fee specified in the Schedule in relation to the State specified.

[5] Section 7

delete.

[6] Subsection 8 (1)

omit:

clause 5 (c)

insert:

paragraph 6 (c)

[7] Paragraph 8 (1) (a)

omit:

2000

insert:

2004 or the regulations that replace them

[8] Schedule - Item

delete the following items (by deletion of the row for that item) in the Schedule:

61523

61526

61529

61532

61559

[9] Schedule - Health service (PET Service)

In the column headed 'Health Service (PET Service)' insert in each row at the end of the item descriptor:

(R)

Notes

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See