Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment (Cervical Cancer Screening) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment (Cervical Cancer Screening) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 13 April 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment (Cervical Cancer Screening) Regulations 2017.

2Commencement

1. (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	1 May 2017.	1 May 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Pathology Services Table) Regulation 2016

1. 1

   Subclause 1.2.7(1) of Schedule 1 (paragraph (d) of the definition of set of pathology services)

Omit “or 73055”, substitute “, 73055 or 73069”.

2

Subparagraph 2.5.2(1)(a)(iii) of Schedule 1

Omit “or 73057”, substitute “, 73057 or 73069”.

1. 3

   Schedule 1 (item 73045, column headed “Pathology service”)

After “item 73053”, insert “or 73069”.

1. 4

   Schedule 1 (items 73053, 73055 and 73057, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “19.45”, substitute “28.00”.

1. 5

   At the end of Division 2.6 of Schedule 1 (after item 73067)

Add:

73069 Cytology of a specimen obtained from cervix or vagina, not associated with item 73053, 73055 or 73057, where the slide is prepared by liquid based preparation techniques, and the slide is microscopically examined by or on behalf of a pathologist using manual or semi‑automated image analysis methods 36.00

1. 6

   Schedule 1 (items 73922 and 73923, column headed “Pathology service”)

Omit “or 73057”, substitute “, 73057 or 73069”.

7

Part 3 of Schedule 1 (table)

Insert:

Liquid based cytology LBC 73069