Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations 2002 (WA)

21 May 2002 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2593

WORKCOVER

WC301*

Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981

Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation

(Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations 2002

Made by the Governor in Executive Council, on the recommendation of the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Commission.

1.             Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Workers’
Compensation and Rehabilitation (Scales of Fees)
Amendment Regulations 2002.

2.             The regulations amended

The amendment in these regulations is to the Workers’
Compensation and Rehabilitation (Scales of Fees)
Regulations 1998*.

[* Published in Gazette 13 October 1998, p. 5709-25.

For amendments to 24 April 2002 see 2000 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 415-6, and
Gazette 28 December 2001.]

3.             Schedule 2 replaced

Schedule 2 is repealed and the following Schedule is inserted instead —

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Schedule 2

[r. 3]

Scale of fees – physiotherapists

Type of service Fee
$

1.	Initial consultation	51.00
(Includes individual initial services provided in rooms, home or hospital; hydrotherapy treatment; specialist consultations; extended treatments; and services provided outside normal business hours)

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2.	Standard consultation	41.00
(Includes individual subsequent services provided in rooms, home or hospital; hydrotherapy treatment; specialist consultations; extended treatments; and services provided outside normal business hours)
3.	Two distinct areas of treatment per visit	51.85
(Includes individual initial or subsequent services provided in rooms, home or hospital; hydrotherapy treatment; specialist consultations; and services provided outside normal business hours)
4.	Three or more distinct areas of treatment per	69.05
visit
(Includes individual initial or subsequent services provided in rooms, home or hospital; hydrotherapy treatment; complex treatment; specialist consultations; and services provided outside normal business hours)
5.	Group consultation – per person	12.00
(Includes services provided to more than one individual in rooms, home or hospital; hydrotherapy treatment; complex treatment; specialist consultations; extended treatments; and services provided outside normal business hours)
6.	Worksite visit (per hour)	116.00
7.	Solicitors reports	51.00
8.	Travel (per kilometre)	0.60

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Recommended by the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Commission on the 12th day of March 2002.

The common seal of the	) )
Workers’ Compensation and	) C.S.
)
Rehabilitation Commission	)

H. T. NEESHAM.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.