Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Additional Nuclear Medicine Services) Amendment Determination 2023 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Additional Nuclear Medicine Services) Amendment Determination 2023

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

Dated               1 June 2023

Daniel McCabe

First Assistant Secretary

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

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Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1 —Amendments to Diagnostic Imaging Services        2

Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Additional Nuclear Medicine Services) Determination 2022

1  Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Additional Nuclear Medicine Services) 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.  The whole of this instrument.	Immediately after registration.

Note:        This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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— Amendments to Diagnostic Imaging Services

Health Insurance (Section 3C Diagnostic Imaging – Additional Nuclear Medicine Services) Determination 2022

1. Section 7

Repeal the section, substitute:

7  Restriction on items – services connected with provision of PET nuclear scanning during thallous chloride 201 (T1-201) interruptions

(1)         Item 61644 only applies to a service described in the item, if:

(a)    the patient’s clinical condition requires the service to be performed before the resumption of normal thallous chloride 201 (T1-201) supply is anticipated by the practitioner who provides the service; and

(b)   the report of the service performed includes a justification for the substitute service, which describes the unavailability of a service to which item 61325 applies.

1. Below Section 7

Insert:

8  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.

3          Schedule 2 - Closed periods of application

Repeal the Schedule.