Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1) (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 652

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 8 April 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

TONY ABBOTT

Minister for Health and Ageing

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 May 2004.

3Amendment of Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2003.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2, rule 77, heading

substitute

77Application of items 10990 and 10991

[2]Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 77 (1)

substitute

• (1)

  If the medical service described in item 10991 is provided to a person, either that item or 10990, but not both those items, applies to the service.

• (1A)

  If item 10990 or 10991 applies to a medical service, the fee specified in that item applies in addition to the fee specified in any other item in this table that applies to the service.

[3]Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 77 (2)

omit

item 10990:

insert

items 10990 and 10991:

[4]Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 77 (2), definition of bulk‑billed, subparagraph (b) (i)

omit

under whose supervision,

insert

on whose behalf,

[5]Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 77 (2), definition of unreferred service

omit

under the supervision of,

insert

on behalf of,

[6]Schedule 1, Part 2, after subrule 77 (2)

insert

• (3)

  For item 10991:

practice location, in relation to the provision of a medical service, means the place of practice in respect of which the medical practitioner by whom, or on whose behalf, the service is provided, has been allocated a provider number by the Commission.

regional, rural or remote area means an area classified as RRMAs 3-7 under the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification.

Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Areas Classification has the meaning given by subrule 3 (1) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to this table.

[7]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 10990

omit

(other than this item)

insert

(other than this item or item 10991)

[8]Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 10990

insert

10991	A medical service to which an item in this table (other than this item or item 10990) applies if: (a) the service is an unreferred service; and (b) the service is provided to a person who is under the age of 16 or is a Commonwealth concession card holder; and (c) the person is not an admitted patient of a hospital or day-hospital facility; and	8.80
(d) the service is bulk-billed in respect of the fees for: (i) this item; and (ii) the other item in this table applying to the service; and (e) the service is provided at, or from, a practice location in: (i) a regional, rural or remote area; or (ii) Tasmania

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 255, as amended by 2003 Nos. 318 and 359.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette