Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Eating Disorders Capping) Determination 2019 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Eating Disorders Capping) Determination 2019

I, GREG HUNT, Minister for Health, make the following Determination.

Dated   10 September 2019                             

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1— Amendments commencing 1 November 2019  2

Schedule 2— Amendments commencing 1 January 2020  4

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Eating Disorders Capping) Determination 2019.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day after this instrument has been approved by each House of Parliament. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.
2.  Schedule 1	The later of: (a) 1 November 2019; and (b) the day after this instrument has been approved by each House of Parliament.
3.  Schedule 2	The later of: (a) 1 January 2020; and (b) the day after this instrument has been approved by each House of Parliament.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under section 10B of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1— Amendments commencing 1 November 2019

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017

1 Paragraph 4(3)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a)subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to each item in the Group of the general medical services table, and items in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act relating to services within those Groups, listed in the column of the table below; and

2 Subsection 4(3) (after table item dealing with group A30)

Insert:

A36

3 Subsection 4(3) (note)

Repeal the note.

4 Paragraph 4(4)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a)subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to each item in the Group of the general medical services table, and items in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act relating to services within those Groups, listed in the column of the table below; and

5 Subsection 4(4) (after table item dealing with group M15)

Insert:

M16

6 Subsection 4(4) (notes)

Repeal the notes.

7 Paragraph 4(5)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a)subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to items 82120, 82125, 82150, 82151, and 82152 in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act; and

8 Subsection 4(5) (note)

Repeal the note.

9 Paragraph 4(6)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(b)subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to the items of the diagnostic imaging services table, and items in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act, listed in column 1 of the table below; and

10 Subsection 4(6) (note)

Repeal the note.

Schedule 2— Amendments commencing 1 January 2020

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017

1  Paragraph 4(1)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a)subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to the items of the general medical services table, and items in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act, listed in column 1 of the table below; and

2  Subsection 4(1) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Item	Maximum increase ($)
13200	1,702.30
13201	2,471.05
13202	66.00
13203	109.90
13206	66.00
13209	11.05
13210	5.40
13212	71.50
13215	49.50
13218	713.90
13221	22.05
13251	109.90
13260	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
14201	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
14202	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16399	24.50
16400	11.25
16401	55.80
16404	33.50
16406	109.90
16407	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16408	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16500	33.50
16501	66.95
16502	22.35
16505	22.35
16508	22.35
16509	22.35
16511	111.50
16512	33.50
16514	16.80
16515	178.40
16518	178.40
16519	334.40
16520	334.40
16527	178.40
16528	334.40
16530	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16564	222.95
16567	222.95
16570	222.95
16571	222.95
16573	222.95
16590	222.95
16591	111.50
16600	33.50
16603	66.95
16606	133.85
16609	256.45
16618	105.95
16624	144.95
16627	312.15
32500	110 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
32520	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
32522	10 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
32523	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
32526	10 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
32528	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
32529	10 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
42505	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
42702	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
42705	15 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
45560	35 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
82100	22.05
82105	16.55
82110	22.05
82115	54.95
82130	16.55
82135	22.05
82140	16.55

3  Subsection 4(1) (note)

Repeal the note.

4 Paragraph 4(2)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

“(a) subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to items 11700, 14100, 20142, 30071, 31560, 32504, 32507, 34106, 37619, 42590, 42738, 42739, 42740, 45003, 45025, 45026, 45200, 45203, 45206, 45545, 45614, 45617, 45620, 45623, 45624, 45632, 45635 and 45652 of the general medical services table; and”