Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2023 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2023

I, Mark Butler, Minister of Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated               6 November 2023       

Mark Butler

Minister of Health and Aged Care

Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017   2

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2023.

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.  Section 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 2024; 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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 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  Paragraph 4(1)(b) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Item	Maximum increase ($)
13200	1996.80
13201	2898.50
13202	77.30
13203	128.70
13209	12.90
13212	83.70
13215	57.90
13218	837.40
13221	25.80
13251	128.70
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	582.30
14217	368.70
14219	582.30
14220	368.70
16400	13.10
16401	65.40
16404	39.20
16406	128.70
16407	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16408	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16500	39.20
16501	78.40
16502	26.10
16505	26.10
16508	26.10
16509	26.10
16511	130.60
16512	39.20
16514	19.60
16515	209.20
16518	209.20
16519	392.10
16520	392.10
16527	209.20
16528	392.10
16530	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
16564	261.40
16567	261.40
16570	261.40
16571	261.40
16573	261.40
16590	261.40
16591	130.60
16600	39.20
16603	78.40
16606	156.90
16609	300.80
16618	124.20
16624	170.00
16627	366.10
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	25.80
82105	19.30
82110	25.80
82115	64.30
82130	19.30
82135	25.80
82140	19.30
91850	13.10
91851	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
91852	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
91853	39.20
91855	13.10
91856	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
91857	65 percent of the Schedule fee for the item
91858	39.20

2  Paragraph 4(6)(b) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Item	Maximum increase ($)
55054	80 percent of the Schedule fee for the item.
55700	38.50
55703	19.30
55704	45.10
55705	19.30
55706	64.30
55707	45.10
55708	19.30
55709	25.70
55712	77.20
55715	25.70
55718	64.30
55721	77.20
55723	25.70
55725	25.70
55729	19.30
55740	67.00
55741	28.80
55742	67.00
55743	28.80
55757	31.90
55758	10.40
55762	38.50
55764	102.90
55766	38.50
55768	96.60
55770	38.50
55772	102.90
55774	45.10