Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 1990 (WA)

4 September 19901 4619

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA

HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1984

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES FOR COMPENSABLE PATIENTS)

DETERMINATION 1990

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

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

Compensable Patients) Determination 1990.

Commencement

2.This determination comes into operation on 1 September 1990.

Interpretation

3. Unless the contrary intention appears, a word or phrase to which a meaning

is attributed by, or by virtue of its use in, the Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984* has the same meaning when it is used in this determination.

(*Published in the Gazette on 27 January 1984 at pp. 231-4. For amendments to 17 August 1990 see pp. 273-74 of 1989 Index to Legislation of Western Australia and Gazettes of 12 April, 25 May and 21 June 1990.)

Charges payable in respect of compensable patients

4.The charges payable in respect of services rendered by, in or at a hospital

in respect of compensable in-patients, compensable day patients and compensa-

ble out-patients are those specified in the Schedule to this determination.

Revocation

5. The Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination

1989* is revoked.

['Published in the Gazette on 25 August 1989 at pp. 2843-44.]

Schedule

(Clause 4)

Services Charges for Compensable Patients
Part 1—Compensable In-Patients

1.  In teaching hospitals, accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed—

including medical services	$451 per day
excluding medical services	$359 per day

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2. In other hospitals, accommodation, maintenance, nurs- ing care and other services in a hospital bed—

including medical services	$346 per day
excluding medical services	$253 per day

3. In nursing homes, accommodation, maintenance, nurs-

ing care and other services in a nursing home bed $111 per day

Part 2—Compensable Day Patients

Accommodation, maintenance and other services $62 per day

Part 3—Compensable Out-Patients

1. In teaching hospitals—

(a) for pathological service—

for each request to a separate department of a

laboratory $62

(b) for radiological service—

for each item of service $62

(c) subject to sub-item (d), for drugs and medications—

for each item $8

(d) 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) . $62

2. In other hospitals—
(a) subject to sub-item (b), for drugs and medications—

for each item $8

(h) 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) . $43

Dated 22 August 1990.

KEITH WILSON, Minister for Health.

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