Workers' Compensation and Injury Management (Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2005 (WA)

11 November 2005 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5567

WORKCOVER

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Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981

Workers' Compensation and Injury

Management (Scales of Fees) Amendment

Regulations (No. 3) 2005

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator in Executive section 292(3).

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Workers' Compensation and Injury
Management (Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations
(No. 3) 2005.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the Workers' Compensation Reform Act 2004 section 130 comes into operation.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Workers'
Compensation and Injury Management (Scales of Fees)
Regulations 1998*.

[* Reprinted as at 24 May 2002.

the Act.

For amendments to 1 November 2005 see Western Australian and Gazette 1 November 2005.]

4.            Regulation 9 inserted

After regulation 8 the following regulation is inserted —

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9.	Scale of maximum fees — approved medical specialists
(1)	Under section 292(3) of the Act, the scale of maximum fees set out in Schedule 6 is prescribed as the scale of maximum fees to be paid to approved medical specialists for making or attempting to make assessments referred to in Part VII Division 2 of

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(2) In Schedule 6 Part 1 -

"assessor" has the meaning given by the WorkCover

Guides;

"report and certificate" means a report referred to in

section 146H(1)(a) of the Act and a certificate

referred to in section 146H(1)(b) of the Act.

Schedule 6 inserted

After Schedule 5 the following Schedule is inserted -

Schedule 6— Scale of maximum fees - approved

medical specialists

r. 91

Part 1 - Assessments

DescriDtion of assessment	Maximum fee
Examination and provision of	$880 (or, if an interpreter
report and certificate -	is present at the
straightforward assessment -	examination, $1 100
other than a service mentioned in	excluding any fee
item 4, 5, 6 or 8	payable to the interpreter)

2.	Examination and provision of	$1 100 (or, if an
report and certificate - moderately	interpreter is present at
complex assessment (eg. reviewing	the examination, $1320
multiple questions and reports;	excluding any fee
impairment involving more	payable to the interpreter)
complex assessments; more than one body system involved) - other than a service mentioned in item 4, 5,6or8
3.	Examination and provision of	$1320 (or, if an
report and certificate - complex	interpreter is present at
assessment (eg. multiple injuries;	the examination, $1 540
severe impairment such as spinal	excluding any fee

cord injury or head injury) - other	payable to the interpreter)
than a service mentioned in item 4, 5, 6 or 8

4.	Examination of any of ear, nose	$880 (or, if an interpreter
and throat only, including	is present at the
audiometric testing, and provision	examination, $1 100

of report and certificate - other excluding any fee

than a service mentioned in item 8	payable to the interpreter)
Examination and provision of	$1320 (or, if an
report and certificate -	interpreter is present at
psychiatric - standard	the examination, $1 540
assessment - other than a service	excluding any fee
mentioned in item 8	payable to the interpreter)

6.	Examination and provision of	$2 200 (or, if an
report and certificate -	interpreter is present at

psychiatric - complex assessment the examination, $2 420

(eg. reviewing significant	excluding any fee
documented prior psychiatric	payable to the interpreter)

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Description of assessment Maximum fee

history) - other than a service

mentioned in item 8

7.	Consolidation of written	$440
assessments from multiple assessors
8.	Re-examination and provision of	$660 (or, if an interpreter
report and certificate	is present at the examination, $880 excluding any fee payable to the interpreter)
9.	Provision of supplementary report	$220
and certificate

Part 2 - Attempted assessments

Description of circumstances Maximum fee

1. If a worker who is required under
Part VII Division 2 of the Act to
submit to an examination by an
approved medical specialist does
not attend, in a case in which - $440

(a)	no prior arrangements to cancel the examination are made; or
(b)	the examination is cancelled, otherwise than at the request of the approved medical specialist, with less than one working day's notice

6.             Various provisions amended

The provision listed in column 2 of an item in the Table to this regulation is amended by deleting what is shown in column 3

and inserting instead what is shown in column 4. Table

column 1	column 2	column 3	column 4
item	provision	deletion	insertion
1.	r. 2(1)	176(Ia)(a)(i)	292(2)(a)(i)
2.	r. 3(1)	176(la)(a)(iii)	292(2)(a)(iii)
3.	r. 4	176(la)(a)(iv)	292(2)(a)(iv)
4.	r. 5	1 76( la)(a)(v)	292(2)(a)(v)
5.	r. 6	176(1 a)(a)(vi)	292(2)(a)(vi)
6.	r. 7	176(la)(a)(vii)	292(2)(a)(vii)
7.	r. 7	therapists	pathologists
8.	r. 7A	176(la)(a)(viii)	292(2)(a)(viii)
9.	r. 8	I76(la)(b)	292(2)(b)
10.	Sch. 5	therapists	pathologists
heading

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7.            References to disabilities changed to injuries

The regulations are amended by deleting "disabilities" in each place specified in the Table to this regulation and inserting instead

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mjurtes

Table

r. 2(1)	r. 6
r. 3(1)	r. 7
r.4	r. 7A
r. 5

Recommended by WorkCover WA on the 27th day of October 2005.

The common seal of

WorkCover WA	L.S
A. WARNER. C. WHITE.

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator,

G. M. PIKE, Clerk of the Executive Council.