Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2) (Cth)

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 113

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 19 June 2008

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

NICOLA ROXON

Minister for Health and Ageing

1. Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2).

1. Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 July 2008.

1. Amendment of Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2007

Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Regulations 2007.

Schedule 1          Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1]          Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 4 (1)

omit

66515,

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

omit

66515,

insert

66512,

[3]          Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 16 (3)

omit

66515,

[4]          Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66512

omit

5 tests

insert

5 or more tests

[5]          Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66515

omit

[6]          Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66707

omit

5 tests

insert

5 or more tests

[7]          Schedule 1, Part 3, item 66710

omit

[8]          Schedule 1, Part 3, item 69396

omit

5 tests

insert

5 or more tests

[9]          Schedule 1, Part 3, item 69399

omit

[10]        Schedule 1, Part 3, Group P10, subgroup 1, before item 73922

insert

73920 Initiation of a patient episode by collection of a specimen for 1 or more services (other than those described in item 73922, 73924 or 73926) if the specimen is collected in an approved collection centre that the approved pathology authority operates in the same premises as it operates a category GX or GY pathology laboratory 2.40

[11]        Schedule 1, Part 3, item 73928

after

in item

insert

73920,

Note

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