Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 3) (Cth)

Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 3)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 114

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

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health Insurance (Pathology Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 3).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 July 2008.

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, paragraph 25 (3) (a)

substitute

(a)items 66655, 66659 and 69482;

[2] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 25 (5)

after

69451,

insert

69483,

[3] Schedule 1, Part 2, subrule 25 (6)

omit

66554

insert

66554, 66830

[4] Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 66828

insert

66830

Quantitation of BNP or NT‑proBNP for the diagnosis of heart failure in patients presenting with dyspnoea in a hospital Emergency Department

(Item is subject to rule 25)

59.55

[5] Schedule 1, Part 3, after item 69481

insert

69482

Quantitation of hepatitis B viral DNA in patients who are hepatitis B surface antigen positive and have chronic hepatitis B but are not receiving antiviral therapy — 1 test

(Item is subject to rule 25)

153.10

69483

Quantitation of hepatitis B viral DNA in patients who:

(a) are hepatitis B surface antigen positive; and

(b) have chronic hepatitis B; and

1 test

(Item is subject to rule 25)

153.10

Note

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