Health Services (Public Hospitals Fees and Charges) Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 1992 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1992 No. 453 Health Services Act 1991 HEALTH SERVICES (PUBLIC HOSPITALS FEES AND CHARGES) AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 2) 1992 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amended regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Replacement of s.1 (Short title) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of s.4 (Accommodation etc. charges) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 Amendment of s.6 (Pharmaceutical charges) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Health Services (Public Hospitals Fees and Charges) Amendment (No. 2) No. 453, 1992 ˙ Short title 1. This regulation may be cited as the Health Services (Public Hospitals Fees and Charges) Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 1992 . ˙ Commencement 2. This regulation commences on 1 January 1993. ˙ Amended regulation 3. The Health Services (Public Hospitals) Fees and Charges Regulation1992 is amended as set out in this regulation. ˙ Replacement of s.1 (Short title) 4. Section 1— omit, insert— ˙ ‘Short title ‘1. This regulation may be cited as the Health Services (Public Hospitals Fees and Charges) Regulation 1992 . ’. ˙ Amendment of s.4 (Accommodation etc. charges) 5. Section 4(1)— omit, insert— ‘4.(1) An Authority may charge, for patient accommodation and other services specified in the Medicare Agreement, the fees and charges that are specified opposite the following classes of patients— (a) eligible person, who is a patient of a private medical practitioner, accommodated in a single room— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 300

3 Health Services (Public Hospitals Fees and Charges) Amendment (No. 2) No. 453, 1992 (b) eligible person, who is a patient of a private medical practitioner, accommodated in other than a single room— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 (c) eligible person, who is a patient of a private medical practitioner, accommodated in either a single room or shared accommodation for less than 1 day . . . . . . . 137 (d) workers’ compensation day benefit patient (other than a day benefit patient covered by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Queensland), third-party day benefit patient or a day benefit patient who is not an eligible person— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 (e) eligible person, who is a patient of a private medical practitioner, treated at a hospital as a day benefit patient and whose treatment can be classified into 1 of the following bands— (i) Band 1—gastro-intestinal endoscopy procedures, non-surgical procedures that do not usually require an anaesthetic, diagnostic and minor surgical procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 (ii) Band 2—procedures that take less than 1 hour carried out under local anaesthetic . . . . . . . . . . 154 (iii) Band 3—procedures that take less than 1 hour carried out under general or regional anaesthetic 171 (iv) Band 4—procedures that take longer than 1 hour carried out under general or regional anaesthetic 189 (f) eligible person who is accommodated in a standard no ward or treated in another area of a hospital as a public charge patient (g) workers’ compensation patient (other than a patient covered by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Queensland)— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 (h) third-party patient— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

4 Health Services (Public Hospitals Fees and Charges) Amendment (No. 2) No. 453, 1992 (i) workers’ compensation patient (covered by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Queensland), accommodated in either a single room or shared accommodation with the approval of the Workers’ Compensation Board of Queensland— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 (j) patient who is not an eligible person or included in any other classification— per day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 ’. ˙ Amendment of s.6 (Pharmaceutical charges) 6.(1) Section 6(2)(b)— omit ‘ $15.70 ’ (wherever occurring) , insert ‘ $15.90 ’. (2) Section 6(3)— omit ‘ (1)(a) ’, insert ‘ (2)(a) ’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 17 December 1992. 2. Notified in the Gazette on 18 December 1992. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Health. The State of Queensland 1992