Hospitals (Services Charages for Compensable Patients) Determination 1993 (WA)

9 July 19931 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3335

HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1984

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES FOR COMPENSABLE PATIENTS)

DETERMINATION 1993

Made by the Minister for Health under section 37 (3) (af) and regulation 5 (2).

Citation

1.This determination may be cited as the Hospitals (Services Charges for

Compensable Patients) Determination 1993.

Commencement

2. This determination comes into operation on 15 July 1993.

Interpretation

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3. Unless the contrary intention appears, a word or phrase to which a meaning is attributed by, or by virtue of its use in, the Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984* has the same meaning when it is used in this determination.

[* Published in Gazette of 27 January 1984 at pp. 231-4.

For amendments to 30 June 1993 see 1992 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 134-5, and Gazettes of 11 February and 30 March 1993.1

Charges payable in respect of

compensable patients

4. The charges payable in respect of services rendered by, in or at a

hospital in respect of —

(a)	compensable in-patients, compensable day patients and compensable out-patients; and
(b)	compensable same day patients (other than services rendered by, in or at a day hospital, nursing home or nursing post),

are those specified in the Schedule to this determination.

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Revocation

5. The Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients)

Determination (1\10.2) 1992* is revoked.

[* Published in Gazette of 26 June 1992 at pp. 2707-08.]

SCHEDULE

[Clause 4]

SERVICES CHARGES FOR COMPENSABLE PATIENTS

PART 1— COMPENSABLE IN-PATIENTS

1. Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and

other services in a hospital bed $525.00 per day

2. Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and

other services in a nursing home bed $156.00 per day

PART 2— COMPENSABLE DAY PATIENTS

Accommodation, maintenance and other services $78.00 per day

PART 3— COMPENSABLE OUT-PATIENTS

1.  For pathological service —

for each request to a separate

department of a laboratory $78.00

2.   For radiological service —

for each item of service $78.00

3.    Subject to item 4, for drugs

and medications —

for each item $13.00

4.  For each other individual service (with any drugs and medications supplied at the time of the initial service being treated as included in

PART 4 — COMPENSABLE SAME DAY PATIENTS $78.00

that service)

In hospitals, other than day hospitals, nursing homes

and nursing posts $430.00 per day.

Dated 1st July 1993.

P. G. FOSS, Minister for Health.