Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 1992 (WA)

24 December 1991] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 6429

HEALTH

HE301

HOSPITALS ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1984

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES FOR COMPENSABLE PATIENTS)

DETERMINATION 1992

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 1992.

Commencement

5005-5

2. This determination comes into operation on 1 January 1992.

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 19.84* has the same meaning when it is used in this determination.

f* Published in the Gazette of 27 January 1984 at pp. 231-4.

For subsequent amendments to 10 December 1991 see 1990 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, pp. 283-4 and Gazettes of 22 February, 22 March, 28 June and 18 October 1991.1

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

6430 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [24 December 1991

Revocation

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

(No. 2) 1991* is revoked.

ric Published in the Gazette of 1 July 1991 at pp. 3313-14.)

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	...	$539 per day
excluding medical services	...	$428 per day

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

including medical services	...	$413 per day
excluding medical services	...	$302 per day

3.  In nursing homes, accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a nursing

home bed ... $134 per day

PART 2 — COMPENSABLE DAY PATIENTS

Accommodation, maintenance and other services ... $74 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 ... $74

(b) for radiological service —

for each item of service ... ... $74

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

for each item ... $13

(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) ... $74

2.     In other hospitals —

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

for each item $13

(b) 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) ... $52

Dated 19 .

KEITH WILSON, Minister for Health.