Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations 1992 (WA)

24 December 19911 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 6431

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HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1992

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Hospitals (Services Charges)

Amendment Regulations 1992.

Commencement

2.     These regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1992.

Schedule repealed and a Schedule substituted

3.     The Schedule to the Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984* is

repealed and the following Schedule is substituted —

a SCHEDULE

(Regulations 4, 5, 7, 8 & 9)

CHARGES FOR SERVICES

PART I — IN-PATIENTS

1.       Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in hospital beds —

(a) for public in-patients no charge

(b) for private in-patients being —

(i)      same day in-patients $136.00 per day

(ii)      other private in-patients —

(I)	in single bed wards (if taken at request of patient) $253.00 per day
(II)	in other wards $180.00 per day

(c) for nursing home type patients

$22.70 per day

(d)

for private nursing home type patients —

(i)	receiving extensive nursing care	$79.95 per day
(ii)	not receiving extensive care	$73.95 per day

(e)

for ineligible in-patients —

(i) Teaching Hospitals $431.00 per day

(ii) Hospitals other than Teaching

Hospitals $305.00 per day

(f)

for war service veteran in-patients -

(i)	same day in-patients	$134.00 per day
(ii)	other in-patients	$178.00 per day

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2.       Home modifications service and supply or loan

as appropriate, of such aids and appliances,

orthoses and prostheses, oxygen, gas and

equipment, wigs, surgical implants or

devices as are approved by the Executive

Director (including repair and

replacement) no charge

3.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care for in-patients —

(a) receiving extensive nursing care $60.25 per day

(b) not receiving extensive nursing care. ... $54.25 per day

4.       Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care

and other services other than those

referred to in items 1, 2 and 3 of this Part • .. $20.75 per day

5.       Accommodation for persons accompanying

patients (except when mother accompanies

sick child for breast feeding or for

medical well being of sick child

or when breast fed child accompanies

sick mother) $16.00 per day

6.       Supply of surgically implanted prosthesis

to private in-patients, ineligible in-patients

and war service veteran in-patients no charge

PART II— DAY PATIENTS

Accommodation, maintenance and other services —

(a) for eligible day patients no charge

(b) for ineligible day patients $74.00 per day

PART III — OUT-PATIENTS

1.       Out-patients service, except for drugs and medication and goods and services referred to respectively in items 2 and 3 of this

Part —

(a)	for eligible out-patients and war service veteran out-patients no charge
(b)	for ineligible out-patients —

(i)      Teaching Hospitals $74.00 for each

individual service

rendered

(ii) Hospital other than Teaching
Hospitals $52.00 for each
individual service
rendered

2.      Drugs and medication — per calendar year —

(a) for pensioners and concessional
beneficiaries —

(i)      for holders of an entitlement

card no charge
(ii)	for others $2.50 per item

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(b)	for all other out-patients —
(i)

for drugs and medication to Health Act applies —

(A) for holders of an

entitlement card no charge

(B) for other persons $13 per item

(ii) for other drugs and medication each item at cost

3.       Goods and services for which a charge may

be made in accordance with any agreement

under section 23F of the Commonwealth Act

to which the State is a party at cost

4.       In items 2 and 3 of this Part —

"at cost" in relation to any goods or service means at the cost of providing the goods or service as determined by the Minister. ".

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

For amendments to 10 December 1991, see 1990 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, pp. 283-4 and Gazettes of 22 February, 22 March, 28 June and 18 October 1991.1

By His Excellency's Command,

L. M. AULD, Clerk of the Council.