Health Services (Fees and Charges) Amendment Order (No. 5) 2023 (WA)

30 June 2023 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2107

HE302

Health Services Act 2016

Health Services (Fees and Charges) Amendment

Order (No. 5) 2023

SL 2023/86

Made by the Minister under section 56 of the Act.

1.            Citation

This order is the Health Services (Fees and Charges)
Amendment Order (No. 5) 2023.

2.            Commencement

This order comes into operation as follows

(a)	clauses 1 and 2 on the day on which this order is published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the order on 1 July 2023.

3.            Order amended

This order amends the Health Services (Fees and Charges)
Order 2016.

4.            Schedule 1 amended

Delete Schedule 1 Divisions 1 and 2 and insert:

Division 1 - General

Subdivision 1 - In-patients

1.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services
(a) for public in-patients no charge
(b) for private in-patients

(i)     in single bed wards (if taken at

patient's request) $717 per day
(ii)	in other wards $421 per day

(c)	for nursing home type patients	$70.55 per day
(d)	for nursing home type private patients	$215.30 per day
(e)	for ineligible in-patients	$2 865 per day
(f)	for eligible veteran in-patients	no charge

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2.       Home modifications service and supply or loan as appropriate, of such aids and appliances, orthotics and prostheses, oxygen, gas and equipment, wigs, surgical implants or devices as are approved by

the Department CEO (including repair and

replacement) no charge

Subdivision 2 - Day patients

3.       Accommodation, maintenance and other services

for eligible day patients no charge

Subdivision 3 - Out-patients

4.	Out-patients service, except for medicines referred to in item 5
(a) for eligible out-patients and eligible

veteran out-patients no charge

(b) for ineligible out-patients for each

individual service rendered $381

5.       Medicines, for each item

(a) for holders of an entitlement card no charge

(b) for other people who are

(i)     veterans who hold a Gold Card or a White Card; or

(ii)     pensioners; or

(iii) concessional beneficiaries $7.30

(c)	for all other people (other than ineligible out-patients)
(i) at a participating hospital for an item

on the PBS list PBS price up to a maximum of $30

(ii)	at a participating hospital for an item
not on the PBS list $24
(iii)	at a hospital that is not a participating
hospital $24
Subdivision 4 - Same day patients

6.

Same day health service, other than a service
subject to a charge set out in this Schedule and
associated with the provision of such service

(a)	for public same day patients	no charge
(b)	for private same day patients	$347 per day
(c)	for eligible veteran same day patients	no charge
(d)	for ineligible same day patients	$2 586 per day

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Subdivision 5 - Other services

7.       Accommodation for persons accompanying

patients (except when parent accompanies sick

child for medical wellbeing of sick child or

breastfeeding, or when breastfed child

accompanies sick mother) $43 per day

Division 2 - Compensable patients

Subdivision 1 - Compensable in-patients

1.       Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed, except services

referred to in item 5 or 6 $3 109 per day

2.        Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a patient, not being a patient mentioned in item 3, in respect of whose health services the Motor Vehicle (Third

Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie

appears to apply $2 400 per day

3.        Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and

other services in a hospital bed for a patient in

Perth Children's Hospital in respect of whose

health services the Motor Vehicle (Third Party

Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie

appears to apply $3 333 per day
4.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a nursing home bed $347 per day

5.        Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and

other services in a hospital bed for a ventilator

dependent compensable in-patient with

tracheostomy requiring 24 hour a day individual

care $6 638 per day

6.        Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a patient

requiring 24 hour a day care for airway

management, with or without tracheostomy $3 969 per day

Subdivision 2— Compensable out-patients

7. For radiological service for each item of

service $381

8.        For medicines, subject to item 9, for each item

(a) at a participating hospital for an item on the

PBS list	PBS price up to a maximum of
$30

(b)	at a participating hospital for an item not on
the PBS list $24
(c)	at a hospital that is not a participating
hospital $24

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9.        For each other individual service (with any medicines supplied at the time of the initial service being treated as included in that service).... $381

Subdivision 3 — Compensable same day patients

10.       Same day treatment in hospitals, other than day hospitals, nursing homes and nursing posts —

(a) for a patient, not being a patient mentioned in paragraph (b), in respect of whose health services the Motor Vehicle (Third Party

Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie

appears to apply $2 827 per day

(b) for a patient in Perth Children's Hospital in respect of whose health services the Motor

Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943

applies or prima facie appears to apply $3 897 per day

(c) for any other patient $3 649 per day

A. SANDERSON, Minister for Health.