Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1994 (WA)

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HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

(NO. 3) 1994

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

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

Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1994.

Commencement

2.      These regulations come into operation on 1 November 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 September 1994 see 1993 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 136-7, and Gazettes of 22 March and 24 June 1994.1

Regulation 4 amended

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

after the definition of "nursing home type patient" the following definition —

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"other services" means any class of service, including the supply of goods, provided by a hospital other than a service rendered by, in, or at a hospital to any class of in-patient, day patient, out-patient or same day patient;

Regulation 5 amended

5.      Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) by repealing subregulation (1) and substituting the following
subregulation —

the following — veteran;

(1) The charges prescribed in the Schedule are

payable in respect of —

(a)	the services referred to in the Schedule and rendered by, in or at a hospital to the classes of patients referred to in the Schedule; or
(b)	any other services referred to in the Schedule.

(b)	in subregulation (2) —
(i) following —

in paragraph (a) by inserting after "paragraph (c)," the

(d) or CO, ";

(ii)      in paragraph (b) by deleting "veteran; and" and substituting

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(iii)     in paragraph (c) (vii) by deleting "patient," and substituting the following -

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patient; "; and

(iv)    by inserting after paragraph (e) the following paragraphs -

It

(d)

any magnetic resonance imaging service
rendered to -

(i)	a compensable in-patient;
(ii)	an ineligible in-patient;
(iii)	a compensable out-patient;
(iv)	an ineligible out-patient;
(v)	a compensable same day patient;
(vi)	an ineligible same day patient; or

(vii) a person, for the of

purposes

research;

and

(e)

the supply of any specialized orthoses or
prostheses to -

(i)	a compensable in-patient;
(ii)	an ineligible in-patient;
(iii)	a compensable out-patient;
(iv)	an eligible out-patient;
(v)	an ineligible out-patient;
(vi)	a compensable same day patient;
(vii)	an ineligible same day patient; or
(viii)	a person who is not a patient,

Schedule amended

6.      The Schedule to the principal regulations is amended

(a) in Part 1 --

(i)      by deleting item 2 and substituting the following item -

it

2.       supply or loan as appropriate, of Home modifications service and

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 -

(a) surgically implanted prostheses subject to a determination made under regulation 5 (2) (c); and

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(b) specialized orthoses or prostheses subject to a determination made under regulation 5 (2) (e) rio charge

and

(ii)     by deleting item 5;

and

(b)	in Part III —
(i) in item 1 by inserting after "this Part" the following —

and any service subject to a determination made under regulation 5 (2) vo;

and

(ii)      by deleting items 3 and 4;

and

(c) after Part IV by inserting the following Part —

PART V — OTHER SERVICES

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 ".

By His Excellency's Command, M C WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Council

Dated 27 September 1994