Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023 (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 3 February 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023.

2Commencement

1. (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 day after this instrument is registered.	7 February 2023
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	1 March 2023.	1 March 2023
3. Schedule 1, Part 2	Immediately after the commencement of the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 4) Regulations 2022.	1 March 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1AmendmentsPart 1Melanoma services

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2021

1

Schedule 1 (item 31377, column 3)

Omit “114.10”, substitute “115.95”.

2

Schedule 1 (item 31378, column 3)

Omit “174.85”, substitute “177.65”.

3

Schedule 1 (item 31379, column 3)

Omit “139.35”, substitute “141.60”.

4

Schedule 1 (item 31380, column 3)

Omit “174.85”, substitute “177.65”.

5

Schedule 1 (item 31381, column 3)

Omit “99.35”, substitute “100.95”.

6

Schedule 1 (item 31382, column 3)

Omit “130.60”, substitute “132.70”.

7

Schedule 1 (item 31383, column 3)

Omit “149.40”, substitute “151.80”.

Part 2Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2021

8

Schedule 1 (cell at item 41509, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

External auditory meatus, surgical removal of keratosis obturans from, performed under general anaesthesia, other than:

(a) a service to which another item in this Subgroup applies; or

(b) a service associated with a service to which item 41647 applies

(H) (Anaes.)

9

Schedule 1 (item 41545, column 2)

Omit “(cortical)” (second occurring).

10

Schedule 1 (item 41635, column 2)

After “applies”, insert “(H)”.

11

Schedule 1 (item 41825, column 2)

After “applies”, insert “(H)”.

12

Schedule 1 (item 41861, column 2)

After “side”, insert “(H)”.