Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 1171

 

Health Insurance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and in accordance with a recommendation made under paragraph 67 (1) (aa) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 to the Minister of State for Health by the Medicare Benefits Advisory Committee, hereby make the following Regulation under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 14 June 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Community Services and Health

 

Medicare benefit not payable in respect of certain professional services

Regulation 2adb of the Health Insurance Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (3) and (4) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(2) Each of the following shall be taken to be professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances:

(a) professional services rendered in relation to the provision of chelation therapy (that is to say, the intravenous administration of ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid or any of its salts) otherwise than for the treatment of heavy-metal poisoning;

(b) professional services rendered in association with the injection of human chorionic gonadotropin in the management of obesity;

(c) professional services rendered in relation to the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of multiple sclerosis:

(d)professional services rendered in relation to the use of computerised tomography scanning for the purposes of measuring bone mineral density for osteoporosis assessment.”.

 

(S.R. 99/89)—Cat. No. 14/17.4.1989

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 June 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 6 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 Nos. 6 and 54

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