Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1993 (WA)

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Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1993.

HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) AMENDMENT

REGULATIONS (NO. 3) 1993

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

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

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Commencement

2.   These regulations shall come into operation on 15 July 1993.

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 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.]

Regulation 4 amended

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

(a) by deleting the definition of "in-patient" and substituting the following definition —

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"in-patient" means a patient as defined in section 3 (1) of the Commonwealth Act who is admitted to a hospital for the purpose of receiving treatment in a hospital bed;

(b) after the definition of "public in-patient" by inserting the following definition —

"same day patient" has the meaning given by

regulation 6 (d);

and

(c) by deleting the following definitions "regulation", "subregulation", "the Act" and "the Schedule".

Regulation 5 amended

5.   Regulation 5 (2) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting "or

compensable out-patient" and substituting the following —

it

,compensable out-patient or compensable same day patient

Regulation 6 amended

6.	Regulation 6 of the principal regulations is amended — (a) in paragraph (b) by deleting "or";
(b) in paragraph (c) (ii) by deleting "hospital." and substituting the following —

if

hospital; or "; and

(c) after paragraph (c) by inserting the following paragraph —

It

(d) a same day patient, namely, a person who is admitted to and discharged from a hospital, not being a day hospital, nursing home or a nursing post, between midnight on one day and midnight on the next succeeding day for the purpose of receiving treatment. to.

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Regulation 7 amended

7. Regulation 7 (1) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

paragraph (ba).

Regulation 9A inserted

8. After regulation 9 of the principal regulations the following regulation is

inserted —

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Classes of same day patients for purpose of payment of charges

9A. (1) A same day patient shall for the purpose of the

payment of charges prescribed in Part IV of the Schedule and in any determination under regulation 5 in respect of him be classified as —

(a) a public same day patient, namely, a same day patient who is an eligible person (not being a compensable same day patient, a war service veteran same day patient or a same day patient who elects to be treated as a private same day patient);

(b) a private same day patient, namely, a same day patient who is an eligible person (not being a compensable same day patient) and who elects to be treated as a private same day patient;

(c)	a compensable same day patient, namely, a same day patient who is an eligible person and who has received or established his right to receive in respect of any injury, illness or disease for which he is receiving care and treatment payment by way of compensation or damages (including payment in settlement of a claim for compensation or damages) under the law that is or was in force in a State or internal Territory or who on attendance at a hospital appears prima facie to have the right to receive any such payment in respect of an injury, illness or disease for which he is receiving care and treatment, including a person in respect of the payment for whose care and treatment —
(i) the Workers' Compensation and Assistance Act 1981;
(ii) the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act

1943;

(iii) section 31A of the Act; or

(iv)the law of Australia relating to the Defence

Force within the meaning of the Defence Act
1903 of the Commonwealth,

applies or appears prima facie to apply;

(d)	a war service veteran same day patient, namely, a same day patient who is an eligible person and who has received or established a right to receive, in respect of any injury or disease, treatment under the Veterans' Entitlement Act 1986 of the Commonwealth; or
(e)	an ineligible same day patient, namely, a same day patient who is not an eligible person.

(2) An eligible person not being a compensable same day patient, shall elect whether to be a public same day patient or a private same day patient. 91

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Schedule repealed and a schedule substituted

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

Schedule is substituted —

SCHEDULE

[Regulations 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 9A1

CHARGES FOR SERVICES

PART 1 — 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 —

(i) in single bed wards (if taken

at request of patient) $317.00 per day

(ii) in other wards $191.00 per day

(c)	for nursing home type patients	$23.70 per day
(d)	for private nursing home type patients —

(i) receiving extensive

nursing care $80.95 per day
(ii)	not receiving extensive care . . . $74.95 per day

(e)	for ineligible in-patients	$547.00 per day
(f)	for war service veteran in-patients .	$191.00 per day

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) no charge
3.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in nursing home beds for in-patients —
(a) receiving extensive nursing care . . . . $61.25 per day

(b) not receiving extensive nursing

care $55.25 per day

4.    Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care

and other services other than those

referred to in items 1, 2 and 3 of this

Part $21.65 per day

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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

6.

Supply of surgically implanted prosthesis 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 $78.00
per day

PART 111 — 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

for each	$78.00
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

(b)	for war service veteran out-patients —
(i) for holders of an entitlement

card no charge

(ii) for holders of apersonal

treatment entitlement card
or specific treatment
entitlement card $2.60 per item

(c)	for all other out-patients —
(i) for holders of an entitlement

card no charge

(ii)	for holders of a concession card	$2.60	per item
(iii)	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

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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

Same day treatment —

(a) for public same day patients	no charge
(b) for private same day patients	$156.00 per day
(c)	for war service veteran same
day patients $156.00 per day
(d) for ineligible same day patients	$448.00 per day

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.