Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 10) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 291

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated this twenty-second day of December 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for Home Affairs and Minister of State for the Capital Territory for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Health

HEALTH INSURANCE (VARIATION OF FEES AND MEDICAL SERVICES) (No. 10) REGULATIONS

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 10) Regulations.

Commencement

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1979.

Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 7) Regulations —amendment of Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 7) Regulations (being that schedule as amended by the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 8) Regulations and the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 9) Regulations) is amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 December 1978.

SCHEDULE

AMENDMENT OF THE SCHEDULE TO THE HEALTH INSURANCE (VARIATION OF FEES AND MEDICAL SERVICES) (No. 7) REGULATIONS

Omit items 180, 182, 184 and 186, substitute the following items:

“ 180	Professional attendance by a participating optometrist—an attendance that is the sole or first attendance in a single course of attention that commenced on or after the proclaimed date, being—
(a) the first or only course of attention of the patient by a participating optometrist since the proclaimed date; or
(b) the second or a subsequent course of attention of the patient by a participating optometrist since the proclaimed date, being a. course of attention commencing not earlier than 12 months after the commencement of the preceding course of attention	20.00	20.00	20.00	20.00	20.00	20.00
“ 182	Professional attendance by a participating optometrist an attendance (not being an attendance covered by item 186) that is the second attendance in a single course of attention in respect of which the first attendance is covered by item 180 ....................................	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00
“ 184	Professional attendance by a participating optometrist—an attendance (not being art attendance covered by item 186) that is the third or a subsequent attendance in a single course of attention of a patient, who, in the professional opinion of the attending optometrist, has a need for that, attendance, being a course of attention in respect of which the first attendance is covered by item 180 ...	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00
“ 186	Professional attendance by a participating optometrist—all attendances after the first, being those attendances regarded as a single service, in a single course of attention involving the prescription and fitting of contact lenses, being a course of attention in respect of which the first attendance is covered by item 180 ...	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00”.

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