Health Insurance (General Practice COVID-19 Management Support Service) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2022 (Cth)

Health Insurance (General Practice COVID-19 Management Support Service) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2022

I, Louise Riley, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated               17 January 2022

Louise Riley

Acting First Assistant Secretary

Medical Benefits Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health

Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1— Amendments.......................................................................................................... 2

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (General Practice COVID-19 Management Support Service) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 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 day after this instrument is registered.

Note:        This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 3C(1) 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (General Practice COVID-19 Management Support Service) Determination 2021

1. Schedule (item 93715, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Attendance by a medical practitioner (other than a specialist or consultant physician) for the assessment and management of a person with COVID-19 infection of recent onset and confirmed by either:

(a)laboratory testing; or

(b)a COVID-19 rapid antigen self-test which has been approved for supply in Australia by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, where:

(i)     the treating practitioner makes a record in the patient’s notes that the relevant state and territory reporting requirements have been met, if applicable, and either:

a.    confirms the patient has reported the positive test result to the relevant state or territory public health unit where reporting requirements are in place from time to time; or

b.    assists the patient to report the positive result to the relevant state or territory public health unit where reporting requirements are in place from time to time.