Hospitals (Services Charges for Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Determination 1996 (WA)

5 March 1996]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	829
HE302

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1927

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1984

HOSPITALS (SERVICES CHARGES FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE

IMAGING) DETERMINATION 1996

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

Citation

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

Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Determination 1995.

Interpretation

2. 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 Gazette, 27 January 1984, pp. 231-4.

For amendments to 16 February 1996 see 1993 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 140-2, and Gazette, 31 March, 27 June and 17 October 1995.]

(a)

the following classes of patients —

(i)	compensable in-patients;
(ii)	ineligible in-patients;
(iii)	compensable out-patients;
(iv)	ineligible out-patients;
(v)	compensable same day patients;

(iv) ineligible same day patients;

Application

3.     This determination applies to Royal Perth Hospital and Sir Charles

Gairdner Hospital.

Charges payable in respect of magnetic resonance imaging

4.     The charges payable in respect of any magnetic resonance imaging

service rendered by the hospitals referred to in clause 4 in respect of —

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and

(b) any other service rendered to a patient for the purposes of

research,

are the appropriate charges set out in the Schedule.

Notice of revocation

5.     The Hospitals (Services Charges for Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Determination 1995* is revoked.

[* Published in Gazette 28 April 1995 at p. 1461-2.]

Schedule

Item	Service	Charge
1.	For a magnetic resonance study of one region of the body or two contiguous regions of the body	$845 per study
2.	For a magnetic resonance study of one region of the body or two contiguous regions of the body incorporating the use of Gadolinium as a contrast medium	$945 per study
3.	For a magnetic resonance study of two or more separate regions of the body, or three or more contiguous regions of the body	$1690 per study
4.	For a magnetic resonance study of two or more separate regions of the body, or three or more contiguous regions of the body, incorporating the use of Gadolinium as a contrast medium	$1790 per study.

Dated this 28th day of February 1996.

KEVIN PRINCE, Minister for Health.