South Australian Health Commission (Compensable and Non-Medicare Patients Fees) Variation Regulations 2006 (SA)

South Australia

South Australian Health Commission (Compensable and Non-Medicare Patients Fees) Variation Regulations 2006

under the South Australian Health Commission Act 1976

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1. Short title

2. Commencement

3. Variation provisions

Part 2—Variation of South Australian Health Commission (Compensable and Non-Medicare Patients Fees) Regulations 2004

1. Variation of regulation 4—Fees

2. Variation of Schedule 2—Recognised hospitals: fees for non-admitted patients

3. Variation of Schedule 3—Recognised hospitals and incorporated health centres: accommodation, rehabilitation, domiciliary care and related fees

4. Insertion of Schedule 3A

   Schedule 3A—Recognised hospitals: Australian Cranio Facial Unit and related fees

   1Interpretation

   2Fee for SAG patient

   3Fee for aliquot patient

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the South Australian Health Commission (Compensable and Non-Medicare Patients Fees) Variation Regulations 2006.

2—Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which they are made.

3—Variation provisions

In these regulations, a provision under a heading referring to the variation of specified regulations varies the regulations so specified.

Part 2—Variation of South Australian Health Commission (Compensable and Non-Medicare Patients Fees) Regulations 2004

4—Variation of regulation 4—Fees

1. Regulation 4(1)—delete "subregulation (3)" and substitute:

   subregulations (3) and (4)

2. Regulation 4(2)—delete "subregulation (3)" and substitute:

   subregulations (3) and (4)

3. Regulation 4(3)—delete "The" and substitute:

   Subject to subregulation (4), the

4. Regulation 4—after subregulation (3) insert:

   (4)The fee to be charged by a recognised hospital for services of a kind set out in Schedule 3A provided to a public patient—

   (a)who is not a compensable patient; and

   (b)who is not a Medicare patient,

   is the fee set out in, or determined in accordance with, that Schedule.

5—Variation of Schedule 2—Recognised hospitals: fees for non-admitted patients

Schedule 2, clause 9, Table 5, item relating to Radiotherapy—delete the item

6—Variation of Schedule 3—Recognised hospitals and incorporated health centres: accommodation, rehabilitation, domiciliary care and related fees

1. Schedule 3, heading—after "domiciliary care" insert:

   , transportation

2. Schedule 3, clause 5—after its present contents (now to be designated as subclause (1)) insert:

   (2)Where, in addition to providing a service referred to in this Schedule, a recognised hospital or incorporated health centre transports, or arranges for the transportation of, a patient to or from (or between different facilities of) the hospital or health centre, the hospital or health centre may charge an additional fee equal to the cost to the hospital or health centre of providing, or arranging for the provision of, that transportation.

   (3)Subclause (2) does not apply to the transportation of a patient with a retrieval team provided by a recognised hospital where a retrieval fee for the provision of such a team by the hospital during transportation is applicable under Schedule 1 or 2.

7—Insertion of Schedule 3A

After Schedule 3 insert:

Schedule 3A—Recognised hospitals: Australian Cranio Facial Unit and related fees

1—Interpretation

In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears—

aliquot public non-Medicare patient (aliquot patient) means a public patient—

(a)who is not a compensable patient or Medicare patient; and

(b)who the Australian Cranio Facial Unit has undertaken in writing to admit for specified treatment or care as an aliquot patient for a specified fee;

Australian Cranio Facial Unit means the Australian Cranio Facial Unit of the Women's and Children's Hospital;

occasion of service means an occasion on which treatment or care is provided to a non-admitted patient and includes any diagnostic or imaging services performed as part of that treatment or care;

South Australian Government Funded public non-Medicare patient (SAG patient) means a public patient—

(a)who is not a compensable or Medicare patient; and

(b)who the Australian Cranio Facial Unit has undertaken in writing to admit for specified treatment or care as a SAG patient for no fee;

Women's and Children's Hospital means the Women's and Children's Hospital facility of the Children, Youth and Women's Health Service Incorporated.

2—Fee for SAG patient

(1)No fee is to be charged by a recognised hospital for Australian Cranio Facial Unit or related treatment or care of a South Australian Government Funded public non-Medicare patient.

(2)In this clause—

Australian Cranio Facial Unit or related treatment or care, in relation to a SAG patient, means the following:

(a)a period of treatment, care and accommodation of an admitted patient by the Australian Cranio Facial Unit, or an occasion of service provided to a non-admitted patient by that Unit, where the treatment, care and accommodation, or occasion of service, forms part of the treatment or care for which the patient was admitted as a SAG patient;

(b)a period of treatment, care and accommodation of an admitted patient by a recognised hospital, or an occasion of service provided to a non-admitted patient by a recognised hospital, where the treatment, care and accommodation, or occasion of service, is arranged by the Australian Cranio Facial Unit and is related to treatment or care of the patient by that Unit;

(c)accommodation for a patient between or following admissions or occasions of service referred to above where the Australian Cranio Facial Unit determines that it is necessary for the proper treatment and care of the patient for the patient to remain in this State during that period;

(d)accommodation for one escort of a patient while the patient is an admitted patient of a recognised hospital or during a period referred to in paragraph (c);

(e)transportation of a patient between recognised hospitals or between different facilities of a recognised hospital,

but does not include the following:

(f)the provision of meals to an escort of a patient;

(g)the provision of meals to a patient other than while he or she is an admitted patient;

(h)transportation of a patient or escort to or from a recognised hospital (other than as specified in paragraph (e)).

3—Fee for aliquot patient

(1)The fee to be charged by a recognised hospital for Australian Cranio Facial Unit treatment or care of an aliquot public non-Medicare patient is $25 165.

(2)In this clause—

Australian Cranio Facial Unit treatment or care, in relation to an aliquot patient, means the following:

(a)a period of treatment, care and accommodation of an admitted patient by the Australian Cranio Facial Unit, or an occasion of service provided to a non-admitted patient by that Unit, where the treatment, care and accommodation, or occasion of service, forms part of the treatment or care for which the patient was admitted as an aliquot patient;

(b)a period of treatment, care and accommodation of an admitted patient by any other part of the Women's and Children's Hospital, or an occasion of service provided to a non-admitted patient by any other part of that Hospital, where the treatment, care and accommodation, or occasion of service, is arranged by the Australian Cranio Facial Unit and is related to treatment or care of the patient by that Unit;

(c)accommodation for a patient between or following admissions or occasions of service referred to above where the Australian Cranio Facial Unit determines that it is necessary for the proper treatment and care of the patient for the patient to remain in this State during that period;

(d)accommodation for one escort of a patient while the patient is an admitted patient of the Women's and Children's Hospital (whether in the Australian Cranio Facial Unit or otherwise) or during a period referred to in paragraph (c),

but does not include the following:

(e)the provision of meals to an escort of a patient;

(f)the provision of meals to a patient other than while he or she is an admitted patient of the Women's and Children's Hospital (whether in the Australian Cranio Facial Unit or otherwise);

(g)any transportation of a patient or escort.

Note—

As required by section 10AA(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1978, the Minister has certified that, in the Minister's opinion, it is necessary or appropriate that these regulations come into operation as set out in these regulations.

Made by the Governor's Deputy

on the recommendation of the Minister for Health and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council

on 19 January 2006

No 8 of 2006

HEACS/05/074