Health Insurance (Endoluminal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Grafting) Determination HS/05/2006 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Endoluminal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Grafting) Determination HS/05/2006

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I, TONY ABBOTT, Minister for Health and Ageing, make this Determination under subsection 3C (1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated   30/10/2006

_______Tony Abbott_________

Minister for Health and Ageing

Contents

1.Name of Determination   3

2.Commencement   3

3.Cessation   3

4.Interpretation   3

5.           Treatment of a relevant service   3

6.Indexation of Fees   4

Schedule       Specified health services   5

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Health Insurance (Endoluminal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Grafting) Determination HS/05/2006.

1. Commencement

This Determination is taken to have commenced on 27 April 2006. 

1. Cessation

This Determination will cease to have effect at the end of 31 October 2007.

1. Interpretation

1. In this Determination:

relevant service means a health service, as defined in subsection 3C(8) of the Act, that is specified in the Schedule.

the Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

the Schedule means the Schedule to this Determination.

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.

1. Unless the contrary intention appears, in this Determination a reference to a provision of the Act or the National Health Act 1953 or regulations made under the Act or under the National Health Act 1953 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.

1. Treatment of a relevant service

A relevant service shall be treated as if:

(a)it were both a professional service and a medical service for the purposes of the provisions of the Act, the National Health Act 1953, the Health Insurance Regulations 1975 and the National Health Regulations 1954 that make provision in respect of professional services or medical services; and

(b)there were an item in the general medical services table that related to the relevant service and 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.

1. Indexation of Fees

1. The fee specified in Column 3 of the Schedule for a relevant service applies where the service is rendered to a patient after 26 April 2006 and before 1 November 2006.

1. The fee specified in Column 4 of the Schedule for a relevant service applies where the service is rendered to a patient after 31 October 2006.

Schedule         Specified health services

Column 1 – Item	Column 2 – Health Service	Column 3 – Fee for all States	Column 4 – Fee for all States
33116	Infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm, replacement by tube graft using endovascular repair procedure, excluding associated radiological services (Anaes.)  (Assist.)	$1,210.75	$1,236.20
33119	Infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm, replacement by bifurcation graft to one or both iliac arteries using endovascular repair procedure, excluding associated radiological services (Anaes.) (Assist.)	$1,345.40	$1,373.65

Note Section 3C(7) of the Act deems an internal territory to form part of the State of New South Wales.