Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Essential Medical Equipment) Specification 2012 (Cth)

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Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Essential Medical Equipment) Specification 2012

Social Security Act 1991

I, JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform, acting under paragraph 917C(3)(a) of the Social Security Act 1991 make this Specification.

Dated   21st March   2012

J Macklin

Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform

  1. Name of Specification

This Specification is the Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Essential Medical Equipment) Specification 2012.

  1. Commencement

This Specification commences on 18 June 2012.

  1. Definition

In this Specification:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

4              Essential Medical Equipment

Each item of equipment specified in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1, to the extent that it is used in circumstances (if any) specified in column 2, is specified essential medical equipment for the purposes of paragraph 917C(1)(a) of the Act.

Schedule 1   Essential Medical Equipment

Column 1

Column 2

Home Dialysis Machine

Home Ventilator

Home Respirator

Home Parenteral or Enteral Feeding Device

Oxygen Concentrator

Heart Pump

Suction Pump

Infant Apnoea Monitor

Prescribed by a medical practitioner following apnoeic episodes

Nebuliser

Used daily

Positive Airways Pressure Device

Phototherapy Equipment

Airbed Vibrator

Electric Wheelchair

Insulin Pump
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