Health Insurance Determination HS/7/1999 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance Determination HS/7/1999

I, MICHAEL RICHARD LEWIS WOOLDRIDGE, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make this Determination under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated          14 December 1999.

M Wooldridge

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Citation

1.       This determination may be cited as the Health Insurance Determination HS/7/1999.

Commencement

2.       This determination shall come into effect on and from the date of gazettal.

Health services

3. (1) A health service specified in the Schedule to this determination is treated as if it were a professional service and a medical service for the purposes of the following provisions:

(a)     sections 5A, 73BDAA, and 73BDA of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Health   
         Act 1953;

(b)     subsections 3(1) and 19(6) and sections 8, 9, 10, 14, 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.

(2) A health service specified in the Schedule to this determination is treated as if it were
           related to an item in the general medical services table that specifies the fee mentioned   
           in the Schedule for the health service.

SCHEDULE TO DETERMINATION HS/7/1999

UNDER SUBSECTION 3C(1) OF THE

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973

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Column 1   Column 2                           Column 3

Item No.   Health Service                            Fee ($)

16018                  Administration of ¹⁵³Sm-lexidronam for the relief of bone pain         1,879.00         

due to skeletal metastases (as indicated by a positive bone scan)

from either:­

(i)carcinoma of the prostate, where hormonal therapy has

failed: or

(ii)         carcinoma of the breast, where both hormonal therapy and

      chemotherapy have failed;

and either:­

(a)         the disease is poorly controlled by conventional  

    radiotherapy; or

(b)         conventional radiotherapy is inappropriate, due to the  wide  

    distribution of sites of bone pain.