Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Pain Management Services) Regulations 2022 (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Pain Management Services) Regulations 2022

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 31 March 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

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

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2021  2

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Pain Management Services) Regulations 2022.

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.  The whole of this instrument	The later of: (a) 11 April 2022; and (b) the day after this instrument is registered.	11 April 2022 (paragraph (a) applies)

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2021

1  Schedule 1 (cell at item 39110, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Left lumbar percutaneous zygapophyseal joint denervation by radio‑frequency probe, or cryoprobe, using radiological imaging control

Applicable to one or more services provided in a single attendance, for not more than 3 attendances in a 12 month period (Anaes.)

2  Schedule 1 (cell at item 39111, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Right lumbar percutaneous zygapophyseal joint denervation by radio‑frequency probe, or cryoprobe, using radiological imaging control

Applicable to one or more services provided in a single attendance, for not more than 3 attendances in a 12 month period (Anaes.)

3  Schedule 1 (cell at item 39116, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Left thoracic percutaneous zygapophyseal joint denervation by radio‑frequency probe, or cryoprobe, using radiological imaging control

Applicable to one or more services provided in a single attendance, for not more than 3 attendances in a 12 month period (Anaes.)

4  Schedule 1 (cell at item 39117, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Right thoracic percutaneous zygapophyseal joint denervation by radio‑frequency probe, or cryoprobe, using radiological imaging control

Applicable to one or more services provided in a single attendance, for not more than 3 attendances in a 12 month period (Anaes.)

5  Schedule 1 (cell at item 39118, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Left cervical percutaneous zygapophyseal joint denervation by radio‑frequency probe, or cryoprobe, using radiological imaging control

Applicable to one or more services provided in a single attendance, for not more than 3 attendances in a 12 month period (Anaes.)

6  Schedule 1 (cell at item 39119, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Right cervical percutaneous zygapophyseal joint denervation by radio‑frequency probe, or cryoprobe, using radiological imaging control

Applicable to one or more services provided in a single attendance, for not more than 3 attendances in a 12 month period (Anaes.)