Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 3) (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 3)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1262

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 10 June 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. 3).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 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, after rule 43A

insert

43BMeaning of comprehensive medical assessment in item 712

• (1)

  For item 712, a comprehensive medical assessment of a resident of a residential aged care facilityis a full systems review of the resident, including an assessment of the resident’s health and physical and psychological function.

• (2)

  A comprehensive medical assessment involves all of the following:

  • (a)

    a personal attendance by a medical practitioner;

  • (b)

    taking a detailed relevant medical history;

  • (c)

    conducting a comprehensive medical examination of the resident;

  • (d)

    developing a list of diagnoses and medical problems based on the medical history and examination;

  • (e)

    providing, for the resident’s records, a written summary of the outcomes of the assessment to inform the provision of care for the resident and to assist in the provision of medication management review services for the resident.

• (3)

  A comprehensive medical assessment also includes:

  • (a)

    making a written summary of the comprehensive medical assessment; and

  • (b)

    providing a copy of the summary to the residential aged care facility; and

  • (c)

    offering the resident a copy of the summary or relevant parts of the summary.

[2]Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 710

insert in Group A14

712 Attendance by a medical practitioner (including a general practitioner but not including a specialist or consultant physician) at a residential aged care facility or at consulting rooms for a comprehensive medical assessment (CMA) of a permanent resident of a residential aged care facility — not being a CMA of a resident in respect of whom, in the preceding 12 months, a payment has been made under this item 176.50

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2003 No. 255, as amended by 2003 Nos. 318 and 359; 2004 Nos. 65 and 77.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette