Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 20) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 501

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Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 20) Regulations

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 25 March 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

MICHAEL MacKELLAR

Minister of State for Health

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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 20) Regulations.

Commencement

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 April 1981.

Amendments of Schedule to Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 17) Regulations

3. The Schedule to the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 17) Regulations (being that Schedule as amended by the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 18) Regulations and the Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 19) Regulations) is amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE Regulation 3

AMENDMENTS OF THE SCHEDULE TO THE HEALTH INSURANCE (VARIATION OF FEES AND MEDICAL SERVICES) (No. 17) REGULATIONS

Amendments of the Table of Medical Services

1.	After item 977 insert the following item in Division 8:
“980	Attendance by a medical practitioner at which acupuncture is performed including any associated consultation on the same day.........................................	11.20	10.40	9.90	9.90	9.90	10.40”.
2.	Omit item 8518, substitute the following item:
“8518	Free full thickness grafts, excluding punch grafts for hair transplant (AU9)	186.00	186.00	186.00	186.00	186.00	186.00”.
3.	Omit items 8528, 8530, 8532, 8534, 8536 and 8538, substitute the following items:
“8528	Mammaplasty, reduction including repositioning of nipple (unilateral) (AU10)	355.00	355.00	355.00	355.00	355.00	355.00
“8530	Mammaplasty, augmentation, prosthetic, for correction of agenesis or following mastectomy (unilateral) (AU10)	295.00	295.00	295.00	295.00	295.00	295.00
“8532	Mammaplasty, augmentation, dermo-fat, for correction of agenesis or following mastectomy (unilateral) (AU11)	355.00	355.00	355.00	355.00	355.00	355.00”.
4.	Omit item 8550.
5.	Omit items 8589 and 8591.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette