Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1) (Cth)

Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 752

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, 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 11 April 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

KAY PATTERSON

Minister for Health and Ageing

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 May 2002.

3Amendment of Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2001

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2001.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2, after rule 30

insert

30AMultiple services — vascular ultrasound

• (1)

  If a medical practitioner provides 2 or more vascular ultrasound services for the same patient on the same day, the fees specified for items that apply to the service are affected as follows:

  • (a)

    the second highest fee is reduced by 40%;

  • (b)

    any other fee, except the highest, is reduced by 50%.

• (2)

  For subrule (1):

  • (a)

    if 2 or more applicable fees are equally the highest, one only of those fees is taken to be the highest fee; and

  • (b)

    if paragraph (a) applies — the other, or another, highest fee is taken to be the second highest fee; and

  • (c)

    if paragraph (b) does not apply, and 2 or more fees are equally second highest, any one of those fees may be taken to be the second highest for the purpose of paragraph (1) (b); and

  • (d)

    if a reduced fee calculated under subrule (1) is not a multiple of 5 cents, the reduced fee is taken to be the nearest higher amount that is a multiple of 5 cents.

• (3)

  This rule applies in addition to Rule 30.

[2]Schedule 1, Part 3, items 55256, 55262, 55264, 55266, 55270, 55277, 55279, 55288 and 55290

omit

[3]Schedule 1, Part 3, items 55113, 55114 and 55115, column 2

omit

this Subgroup,

insert

this Subgroup (except items 55118 and 55130),

[4]Schedule 1, Part 3, items 55113, 55114 and 55115, column 3

omit

244.75

insert

242.80

[5]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55116, column 2

omit

this Subgroup,

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this Subgroup (except items 55118 and 55130),

[6]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55116, column 3

omit

244.75

insert

270.00

[7]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55117, column 2, subparagraph (a) (ii)

omit

or immediately after peak exercise

[8]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55117, column 2, paragraph (b)

omit

this Subgroup,

insert

this Subgroup (except items 55118 and 55130),

[9]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55117, column 3

omit

244.75

insert

270.00

[10]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55118, column 2, paragraph (b)

omit

3, or another item in this Subgroup,

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3

[11]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 55118, column 3

omit

244.20

insert

290.00

[12]Schedule 1, Part 3, items 55276 and 55278, column 2

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for an examination of not less than 45 minutes duration,

[13]Schedule 1, Part 3, items 55238, 55244, 55246, 55248, 55252, 55274, 55276, 55278, 55280, 55282, 55284, 55292 and 55294, column 3

omit

169.45

insert

155.25

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2001 No. 293.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette