Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination (No 2) 1996 (WA)

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2. This determination comes into operation on 1 July 1996.

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1984

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES FOR COMPENSABLE PATIENTS)

AMENDMENT DETERMINATION (No. 2) 1996

Made by the Minister for Health under section 37 (3) (af) of the Act and regulation 5 (2).

Citation

1. This determination may be cited as the Hospitals (Services Charges for

Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 1996.

Commencement

28 June 19961 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3029

Schedule repealed and a Schedule substituted

Patients) Determination 1994* is repealed and the following Schedule is	3. The Schedule to the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable
substituted - "

SCHEDULE - SERVICE CHARGES FOR

COMPENSABLE PATIENTS

[Clause 4]

PART 1— COMPENSABLE IN-PATIENTS

1. Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and

other services in a hospital bed, other than as $555

provided in item 3 per day

2. Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and $156

other services in a nursing home bed per day

3. Ventilator dependant compensable in-patients with $1500 tracheostomy requiring 24 hours individual care . per day

PART 2— COMPENSABLE DAY PATIENTS

Accommodation, maintenance and other services . $80

per day

PART 3— COMPENSABLE OUT-PATIENTS

1. For pathological service -

for each request to a separate department of a

laboratory $80
2.	For radiological service - for each item of service $80
3.	Subject to item 4, for drugs and medications - for each item $14.50

4. For each other individual service (with any drugs

and medications supplied at the time of the initial

service being treated as included in that service) . $80

PART 4— COMPENSABLE SAME DAY PATIENTS

In hospitals, other than day hospitals, nursing	$445
homes and nursing posts	per day

[* Published in Gazette 24 June 1994, p. 2878-79.

For amendments to 6 June 1996 see 1995 Index to Legislation of

Western Australia, Table 4, p. 149 and Gazette 5 March 1996.1

KEVIN PRINCE, Minister for Health.