Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Childhood Access to Anaesthesia) Determination 2019 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Childhood Access to Anaesthesia) Determination 2019

I, Andrew Simpson, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following determination.

Dated 13 December 2019  

Andrew Simpson

Assistant Secretary

MBS Reviews Unit

Medical Benefits Division

Health Financing Group

Department of Health

Contents

1            Name

2            Commencement

3            Cessation

4            Authority

5             Definitions

6            Treatment of relevant service in the Schedule

Schedule 1 – Relevant Service

1          Name

This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Childhood Access to Anaesthesia) Determination 2019.

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 through to 6	Immediately after registration of this instrument
2. Schedule	This Schedule is taken to have commenced 1 November 2019

Note:        This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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          Cessation

This instrument ceases as if repealed at midnight 30 April 2020.

4          Authority

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

5          Definitions

1. In this instrument:

Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.

relevant provisions means all provisions, of the Act and regulations made under the Act, and the National Health Act 1953 and regulations made under the National Health Act 1953, relating to medical services, professional services or items.

relevant service means a health service, as defined in subsection 3C(8) of the Act, that is specified in the Schedule.

Schedule means the Schedule to this instrument.

Note:  The following terms are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act:

·clinically relevant service

·general medical services table

·item

·professional service

1. Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this instrument to a provision of the Act or the National Health Act 1953 or regulations made under the Act or under the National Health Act 1953 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.

6          Treatment of relevant service in the Schedule

For subsection 3C(1) of the Act a relevant service, provided in accordance with the Schedule to this instrument and as a clinically relevant service, is to be treated, for the relevant provisions, as if:

(a)it were both a professional service and a medical service; and

(b)there were an item in the general medical services table that:

(i)related to the service; and

(ii)specified for the service a fee in relation to each State, being the fee specified in the Schedule in relation to the service.

Schedule 1 – Relevant Service

Item	Service	Fee ($)
25012	Anaesthesia, perfusion or assistance in the management of anaesthesia, if the patient is over 3 years of age but under 4 years of age.	20.10