Health Insurance (Pathologist-determinable Services) Amendment Determination 2018 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Pathologist-determinable Services) Amendment Determination 2018

I, CELIA STREET, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following determination.

Dated        12 December 2018

Celia Street

Assistant Secretary

Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Health Financing Group

Department of Health

Contents

1.Name   3

2.Commencement   3

3.Authority  3

4.Schedules  3

Schedule 1 – Amendments   4

1. Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Pathologist-determinable Services) Amendment Determination 2018.

1. 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	Immediately after the commencement of the Health Insurance (Section 3C Co-Dependent Pathology Services) Amendment Determination (No. 3) 2018

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1. Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 4BA of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

1. 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Pathologist-determinable Services) Determination 2015

1. Subsection 5(b)(iii) (table)

Repeal and replace:

Item	Column 1 Pathology service	Column 2 Originally requested service
1	72846, 72847, 72848, 72849, 72850, 73332, 73336, 73337, 73342, 73344	72813, 72816, 72817, 72818, 72823, 72824, 72825, 72826, 72827, 72828, 72830, 72836, 72838
2	73059, 73060, 73061	73045, 73047, 73049, 73051
3	72851, 72852	72813, 72816, 72817, 72818, 72823, 72824, 72825, 72826, 72827, 72828, 72830, 72836, 72838
4	73305	73300
5	73320	71147
6	66839	66838

Note: Items 73332, 73336, 73337, 73342 and 73344 are specified in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act.