Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2012 (WA)

15 June 2012 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2517

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Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment

Regulations (No. 4) 2012

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 4)2012.
2.	Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows -

(a)	regulations 1 and 2—on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations - on 1 July 2012.

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Hospitals (Services Charges)
Regulations 1984.

4.            Schedule 1 amended

(1) In Schedule 1 Division 1:

(e)	for ineligible in-patients ....................................$1 666 per day

(a) delete item 1(b) and insert:

(b) for private in-patients -

(i)    in single bed wards (if taken at patient's request) ........................................................$577 per day

(ii) in other wards ..............................................$318 per day

(b) delete item 1(d) and insert:

(d) for private nursing home type patients ..............$167 per day

(c) delete item 1(e) and insert:

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(2) In Schedule 1 Division 3 delete item 4(b) and insert:

(b) for ineligible out-patients — for each

individual service rendered $189

(3) In Schedule 1 Division 4:

(a) delete item 6(b) and insert:

(b) for private same day patients $260 per day

(b)	delete item 6(d) and insert:
(d) for ineligible same day patients	$1 519 per day

(4) In Schedule 1 Division 5 delete item 7 and insert:

7. Accommodation for persons accompanying patients

(except when parent accompanies sick child for

medical wellbeing of sick child or breastfeeding, or

when breastfed child accompanies sick mother) $34.50 per day

By Command of the Governor,

G. MOORE, Clerk of the Executive Council.