Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2021 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2021

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

Dated 21 November 2021                  

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1— Amendments  2

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2021.

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 January 2022; 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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017

1 Subsection 4(1) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Item	Maximum increase ($)
13200	1765.65
13201	2563.00
13202	68.45
13203	113.95
13206	68.45
13209	11.50
13210	5.60
13212	74.15
13215	51.35
13218	740.45
13221	22.85
13251	113.95
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
14216	515.00
14217	326.15
14219	515.00
14220	326.15
16399	25.40
16400	11.70
16401	57.90
16404	34.75
16406	113.95
16407	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16408	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16500	34.75
16501	69.40
16502	23.20
16505	23.20
16508	23.20
16509	23.20
16511	115.65
16512	34.75
16514	17.40
16515	185.05
16518	185.05
16519	346.85
16520	346.85
16527	185.05
16528	346.85
16530	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16564	231.25
16567	231.25
16570	231.25
16571	231.25
16573	231.25
16590	231.25
16591	115.65
16600	34.75
16603	69.40
16606	138.85
16609	266.00
16618	109.90
16624	150.35
16627	323.80
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
42504	15 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	22.85
82105	17.15
82110	22.85
82115	57.00
82130	17.15
82135	22.85
82140	17.15

2 Paragraph 4(6) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Item	Maximum increase ($)
55054	80 percent of the Schedule fee for the item.
55700	34.20
55703	17.15
55704	39.90
55705	17.15
55706	56.95
55707	39.90
55708	17.15
55709	22.80
55712	68.35
55715	22.80
55718	56.95
55721	68.35
55723	22.80
55725	22.80
55729	17.15
55762	34.20
55764	91.10
55766	34.20
55768	85.50
55770	34.20
55772	91.10
55774	39.90