Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2008 (WA)

10 June 2008 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2489

HE302*

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984

This determination is the Hospitals (Services Charges for
Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination

(No. 2) 2008.

Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable

Patients) Amendment Determination

(No. 2) 2008

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

1.            Citation

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2.             Commencement

This determination comes into operation as follows:

(a)	clauses 1 and 2—on the day on which this determination is published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the determination - on 1 July 2008.

3.            The determination amended

The amendments in this determination are to the Hospital
(Services Charges for Compensable Patients)
Determination 2005.

4.             Schedule 1 replaced

Schedule 1 is repealed and the following Schedule is inserted instead -

Schedule I - Services charges for

compensable patients

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Division 1 - Compensable in-patients

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care

and other services in a hospital bed, except

services referred to in item 3 or 4 ................ $1 545 per day

2.       Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care

and other services in a hospital bed for a

patient, not being a patient mentioned in

item 2A, in respect of whose care and

treatment the Motor Vehicle (Third Party

Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie

appears to apply ..................................... $1 347 per day
2A.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a
patient in Princess Margaret Hospital for

Children in respect of whose care and

treatment the Motor Vehicle (Third Party

Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie

appears to apply ..................................... $1 656 per day

3.      Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care

and other services in a nursing home bed ........ $223 per day
4.	Ventilator dependent compensable in-patient with tracheostomy requiring 24 hours individual care ....................................... $3 528 per day

Division 2 - Compensable out-patients

5.       For pathological service - for each request to a separate department of the laboratory ...........$146

6.       For radiological service - for each item of service .................................................$146

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7.	For drugs and medications, subject to item 8,	PBS price up
for each item —	to a maximum

(a) at a participating hospital — of

(i)	for an item on the PBS list	$31.30
(ii)	for an item not on the PBS list .......	$25.00

(b)	at a hospital that is not a participating
hospital ......................................... $25.00

8.        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 ........................................... $146

Division 3 — Compensable same day patients

9.        In hospitals, other than day hospitals, nursing homes and nursing posts —

(a) for a patient, not being a patient

mentioned in paragraph (aa), in respect of

whose care and treatment the Motor

Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943

applies or prima facie appears to apply .... $1 357 per day

(aa) for a patient in Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in respect of whose care and treatment the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie

appears to apply ................................ $1 669 per day

(b) for any other patient ........................... $1 557 per day ,)

JIM McGINTY, Minister for Health.