Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1994 (WA)

24 June 19941 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2871

HESOS HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

(NO. 2) 1994

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in Executive

Council.

Citation

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

Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1994.

Commencement

2.      These regulations come into operation on 1 July 1994.

Principal regulations

3.     In these regulations the Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984*

are referred to as the principal regulations.

[* Published in Gazette of 27 January 1984 at pp. 231-4.	For amendments to 14 June 1994 see 1993 Index to Legislation of	Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 136-7, and Gazette of
22 March 1994.1

Regulation 4 amended

4.      Regulation 4 of the principal regulations is amended in subregulation (1)

by inserting, in their appropriate alphabetical positions, the following

definitions -

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"eligible war service veteran" means a war service veteran who elects to be treated under the Repatriation Private Patient Scheme being an agreement made between the Commissioner and the Deputy President of the Repatriation Commission;

"surgically implanted prostheses" means the prostheses, other than a prosthesis supplied to an eligible war service veteran for the purposes of cardiothoracic surgical service of the Act and regulation 5 (2) (b), specified in the specified in a determination made under section 37 (3) (af)

(i) compensable in-patient;

determination made under section 4 (1) (dd) of the National

Health Act 1953 of the Commonwealth;

"war service veteran" means a person who has received or

disease, treatment under the Veterans' Entitlement Act	established a right to receive, in respect of any injury or
1986 of the Commonwealth;

Regulation 5 amended

5.      Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is amended

(a) by repealing subregulation (2) and substituting the following

subregulation --

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Schedule the charge payable in respect of any service rendered by, in or at a hospital in respect of—

(a) any service, other than a service referred

to in paragraph (c), rendered to a

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(ii)    compensable day patient;

(iii)   compensable, out-patient; or

(iv)   compensable same day patient;

(b) any specified cardiotboracic surgical

service rendered to an eligible war service

veteran; and

(c) the supply of any specified surgically

implanted prosthesis to a -

(1) private in-patient;

(ii) eligible war service veteran in-

patient;

(iii)   compensable in-patient;

(iv)   ineligible in-patient;

(v)    private same day patient;

(vi) eligible war service veteran same
day patient;

(vii)  compensable same day patient; or

(viii) ineligible same day patient,

shall be of an amount determined by the

Minister according to the cost of the service.

and

(b) after subregulation (3) by inserting the following	subregulation -
it

"specified" means as specified in the determination (4) For the purposes of subrgulation (2)

made by the Minister.

Regulation 7 amended

6. Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a) in subregulation (1) -

(i) in paragraph (a) (i) by deleting "in-patient); and" and
substituting the following -

a

in-patient);

(ia) who elects to be treated as a public in- patient; and

(ii) by repealing paragraph (ca) and substituting the following	paragraph -
a

(ca) an eligible war service veteran in-patient, service veteran who elects to be treated under the Repatriation Private Patient Scheme; namely, an in-patient who is a war

and

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(iii) in paragraph (f) (ii) by deleting the following —

a a.

or a war service veteran in-patient

and

(b) by repealing subregulations (2) and (3) and substituting the following subregulations

soon as practicable after admission, an eligible person (2) At the time of admission to a hospital, or as

(not being a compensable in-patient or a war service as — veteran) must elect whether he wishes to be classified

(a)	a public in-patient; or
(b)	a private in-patient.

soon as practicable after admission, a war service (3) At the time of admission to a hospital, or as

veteran must elect whether he wishes to be classified

as —

(a) an eligible war service veteran in-patient;

(b) a public in-patient; or

(c) a private in-patient.

Regulation 8 amended

7.      Regulation 8 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting paragraph (ab); and
(b)	in paragraphs (b) (ii) and (c) (ii) by deleting the following —

or war service veteran day patient

Regulation 9 amended

8.     Regulation 9 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

paragraph (ab) and substituting the following paragraph —

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(ab) a war service veteran out-patient, namely, an out-patient who is a war service veteran;

Regulation 9A amended

9.      Regulation 9A of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in subregulation (1) (a) by deleting "a war" and substituting the following —

an eligible war

(b) by deleting subregulation (1) (d) and substituting the following paragraph —

(d) an eligible war service veteran same day war service veteran who elects to be treated under the Repatriation Private Patient Scheme; or patient, namely, a same day patient who is a

and

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(c) by repealing subregulation (2) and substituting the following

subregulations -

(2) At the time of admission to a hospital, or as soon as practicable after admission, an eligible person (not being a compensable same day patient or war service veteran) must elect whether he wishes to be classified as a

(a)	public same day patient; or
(b)	private same day patient.

(3) At the time of admission to a hospital, or as soon as practicable after admission, a war service veteran must elect whether he wishes to be classified as —

(a)	an eligible war service veteran same day patient;
(b)	a public same day patient; or
(c)	a private same day patient.

The Schedule repealed and a Schedule substituted

10.      The Schedule to the principal regulations is repealed and the following

Schedule is substituted -

a

SCHEDULE

[Regulations 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 9A]

CHARGES FOR SERVICES

PART 1— IN-PATIENTS

1.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care
and other services other than in hosjntal
beds subject to a determination made under
regulation 5 (2) -

(a)	for public in-patients .............	no charge
(b)	for private in-patients -

(i)       in single bed wards (if taken

at request of patient) ........ $321.00 per day
(ii)	in other wards ............. $194.00 per day

(c)	for nursing home type patients	$24.15 per day
(d)	for private nursing home type patients -

(i)       receiving extensive

nursing care ............... $82.00 per day
(ii)	not receiving extensive care ... $76.00 per day

(e)	for ineligible in-patients	..........	$558.00 per day
(f)	for eligible war service

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 Executive

Director (including repair and

replacement), other than surgically

implanted prostheses subject to a

determination made

under regulation 5 (2) (c) ................ no charge
3.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in nursing home beds for in-patients -
(a) receiving extensive nursing care $61.70 per day
(b) not receiving extensive

nursing care ................... $55.70 per day

4.       Accommodation, maintenance,

nursing care and other services other than those referred to in items 1, 2 and 3 of this Part ............ $22.10 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) $17.00 per day

PART H - DAY PATIENTS

Accommodation, maintenance and other services -

(a)	for eligible day patients ...........	no charge
(b)	for ineligible day patients .........	$80.00 per day

PART ifi - 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	.........	$80.00
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 ................. $2.60
per item

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(b) for war service veteran out-patients —

(i)       for holders of an entitlement

card no charge

(ii)      for holders of a personal

treatment entitlement card

or specific treatment

entitlement card $2.60
per item

(c) for all other out-patients —

(i)       for holders of a concession

card $2.60

per item

(ii) for other persons $13.00
per item

3.	Goods and services for which a charge may be made in accordance with any agreement under section 24 of the Commonwealth Act to which the State is a party	at cost
4.	In item 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.

PART IV — SAME DAY PATIENTS

determination made under regulation 5 associated with the	Same day treatment, other than a service subject to any
rendering of such treatment —

(a) for public same day patients no charge

(b) for private same day patients $156.00 per day

(c)	for eligible war service veteran same day patients	no charge
(d)	for ineligible same day patients	$448.00 per day

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor. D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.