Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1992 (WA)

2690 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [26 June 1992

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HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

(NO. 4) 1992

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

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

Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1992.

Commencement

2.     These regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 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Schedule repealed and a schedule substituted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repealed and the following Schedule is substituted —

it

SCHEDULE

(c) for nursing home type patients $23.05 per day

[Regulations 4, 5, 7, 8 & 91

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 being —

(i)	same day in-patients	$144.00 per day
(ii)	other private in-patients —

(I)	in single bed wards (if
taken at request of
patient) $267.00 per day
(II)	in other wards $189.00 per day

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(d) for private nursing home type patients -

receiving extensive

(i)     nursing care .................$80.30 per day

(ii)     not receiving extensive care .....$74.30 per day

(e)

for ineligible in-patients

(i)	Teaching Hospitals ............$455.00 per day
(ii)	Hospitals other than Teaching

Hospitals ...................$322.00 per day

(1)

for war service veteran in-patients -

(i)	same day in-patients ...........$142.00 per day
(ii)	other in-patients ..............$188.00 per day

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
and other services in nursing tome beds
for in-patients -

(a)	receiving extensive nursing care .......$60.60 per day
(b)	not receiving extensive nursing care. . . . $54.60 per day

4.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care
and other services other than those
referred to in items 1, 2 and 3 of this Part . . . $21.05 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
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 ............$78.00 per day

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PART III— OUT-PATrENTS

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 ............$78.00 for each

individual service

rendered

(ii) Hospital other than Teaching
Hospitals .................... $55.00 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

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

card ...................... No charge

(ii)

for holders of a personal 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.	be made in accordance with any agreement	Goods and services for which a charge may 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.

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

For amendments to 15 June 1992 see 1991 Index to Legislation of

Western Australia, pp. 380-1 and Gazettes of 31 January and 20

March 1992.1

By His Excellency's Command,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Council.