Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2003 (WA)

17 June 2003 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2213

HE301*

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment

Regulations (No. 3) 2003

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

24 April 20031

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Hospitals (Services
Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2003.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on 1 July 2003.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Hospitals
(Services Charges) Regulations 1984*.

r Reprinted as at 7 December 2001.

For amendments to 22 May 2003 see 2001 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 167-70, and
Gazette 18 June and 1 November 2002 and 28 February and

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4.             Regulation 4 amended

Regulation 4(1) is amended by inserting the following definitions in the appropriate alphabetical positions -

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"participating hospital" means -

(a)	Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital;
(b)	Bentley Hospital;
(c)	Graylands Selby-Lemnos and Special Care Hospital;
(d)	Osborne Park Hospital;
(e)	Royal Perth Hospital; or
(f)	Swan District Hospital;

"PBS price" means the price specified in the

National Health Act 1953 of the Commonwealth;

document "Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing for the purposes of the
for Approved Pharmacists and Medical

5.             Schedule replaced

The Schedule is repealed and the following Schedule is inserted instead -

Schedule -Charges for services

[r. 5, 7, 8, 9 and 9A]

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and Part I— In-patients

other services other than in hospital 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) ......................................................... $435 per day

(ii) in other wards ..............................................$250 per day

(c) for nursing home type patients ........................$32.30 per

day

(d) for private nursing home type patients -

(i)    receiving extensive nursing care ................$107 per day

(ii) not receiving extensive nursing care .........$101 per day

(e) for ineligible in-patients ...................................$890 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 -

(a)	surgically implanted prostheses subject to a determination made under regulation 5(2)(c); and
(b)	specialized orthoses or prostheses subject to a determination made under regulation 5(2Xe) .... no charge

Part II— Day-patients

A cco,n,nodatwn. maintenance and other services -

(a)	for eligible day patients ......................................	no charge
(b)	for ineligible day patients ...................................	$110 per day

Part III - Out-patients

Out-patients service, except for drugs and medication referred to in item 2 and any service subject to a determination made under

regulation	5(2) -
(a)	for eligible out-patients and war service
veteran out-patients .......................................... no charge
(b)	for ineligible out-patients - for each
individual service rendered .............................. $110

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 ................................................ $3.70 per item
(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 ........................................ $3.70 per item

(c)	for all other out-patients -
(i) for holders of a concession card ............. $3.70 per item
(ii) for other persons -

(I)	for other persons attending at a
participating hospital on or after
1 October 2003 .............................. PBS price up to a maximum of $23.10 per item
(II) otherwise	$18.50 per item

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Part IV— Same day patients

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

(a) for public same day patients ................................ no charge

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(b)	for private same day patients	$178 per day
(c)	for eligible war service veteran same day
patients	no charge
(d)	for ineligible same day patients	$708 per day

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) $20 per day

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.