Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 361

 

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 28 March 1985.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Health

 

After regulation 2adaof the Health Insurance Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Medicare benefit not payable in respect of certain professional services

“2adb. (1)Unless the Minister otherwise directs, medicare benefits are not payable in respect of professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances.

“(2)For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), 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 shall be taken to be professional services rendered in prescribed circumstances.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 April 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135; 1976 Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No. 230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157,251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231, 253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162.

 

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