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

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

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 662

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 (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 May 2004.

3Amendment of Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2003

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

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 2 (4), including the heading

substitute

Application of items 74990 and 74991

• (4)

  Despite subrules (1), (2) and (3):

  • (a)

    if the pathology service described in item 74991 is provided to a person, either that item or item 74990, but not both those items, applies to the service; and

  • (b)

    if item 74990 or 74991 applies to a pathology 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.

[2]Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 2 (5)

omit

item 74990:

insert

items 74990 and 74991:

[3]Schedule 1, Part 2, after subrule 2 (5)

insert

• (6)

  For item 74991:

practice location, in relation to the provision of a pathology service, means the place of practice in respect of which the 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 the general medical services table.

[4]Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 3 (2) (ab)

omit

74990;

insert

74990 or 74991;

[5]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 74990

omit

(other than this item)

insert

(other than this item or item 74991)

[6]Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 74990

insert

74991	A pathology service to which an item in this table (other than this item or item 74990) 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. 256, as amended by 2003 Nos. 295, 300 and 360.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette