Statutory Rules 1981 No. 3781
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Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and
Medical Services) (No. 23) Regulations
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal
Executive Council, hereby make the folio Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Dated 21 December 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.
23) Regulations.
Commencement
2. These Regulations shall
come into operation on 1 January 1982.
Amendment
of Schedule to Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No.
22) Regulations
3. The Schedule to the
Health Insurance (Variation of Fees and Medical Services) (No. 22) 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. 22) 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—
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(a) the first or only course of
attention of the patient by a participating optometrist since the proclaimed
date; or
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(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.............................
| 26.50 | 26.50 | 26.50 | 26.50 | 26.50 | 26.50 |
“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..............................................................
| 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 |
“184 | Professional
attendance by a participating optometrist—an attendance (not being an
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..............................
| 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 | 13.40 |
“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................................................
| 134.00 | 134.00 | 134.00 | 134.00 | 134.00 | 134.00 |
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette