Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services Indexation) Amendment Determination 2023 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services - Indexation) Amendment Determination 2023

I, Daniel McCabe, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated               17 March 2023

Daniel McCabe

First Assistant Secretary

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1 – Indexation   2

Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services) Determination 2020

Schedule 2 - Amendments       3

Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services) Determination 2020

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services - Indexation) Amendment Determination 2023.

2  Commencement

(1)       Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	1 July 2023.
2.  Schedule 1	1 July 2023.
3.  Schedule 2	Immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2.

Note:        This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)       Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1— Indexation

Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services) Determination 2020

1. Section 8, subsection (1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1)        At the start of 1 July 2023 (the indexation time), each amount covered by subclause (2) is replaced by the amount worked out using the following formula:

Note:          The indexed fees could in 2023 be viewed on the Department of Health and Aged Care’s MBS Online website ( 2— Amendments

Health Insurance (Section 3C Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services) Determination 2020

1. Part 2 (item 75621)

Repeal the item, substitute:

75621 The provision and fitting of surgical template in conjunction with orthognathic surgical procedures in association with:     (a)   an item in the series:             (i)   46150 to 46161; or            (ii)   52342 to 52375; or     (b)   item 52380 or 52382; if the patient is referred by an eligible orthodontist (AOS) 253.65